• 文献标题:   Fast water transport in graphene nanofluidic channels
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   XIE Q, ALIBAKHSHI MA, JIAO SP, XU ZP, HEMPEL M, KONG J, PARK HG, DUAN CH
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   1748-3387 EI 1748-3395
  • 通讯作者地址:   Boston Univ
  • 被引频次:   38
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41565-017-0031-9
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Superfast water transport discovered in graphitic nanoconduits, including carbon nanotubes and graphene nanochannels, implicates crucial applications in separation processes and energy conversion. Yet lack of complete understanding at the single-conduit level limits development of new carbon nanofluidic structures and devices with desired transport properties for practical applications. Here, we show that the hydraulic resistance and slippage of single graphene nanochannels can be accurately determined using capillary flow and a novel hybrid nanochannel design without estimating the capillary pressure. Our results reveal that the slip length of graphene in the graphene nanochannels is around 16 nm, albeit with a large variation from 0 to 200 nm regardless of the channel height. We corroborate this finding with molecular dynamics simulation results, which indicate that this wide distribution of the slip length is due to the surface charge of graphene as well as the interaction between graphene and its silica substrate.