Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Unexpected behaviors in molecular transport through size-controlled nanochannels down to the ultra-nanoscale

  • Giacomo Bruno,
  • Nicola Di Trani,
  • R. Lyle Hood,
  • Erika Zabre,
  • Carly Sue Filgueira,
  • Giancarlo Canavese,
  • Priya Jain,
  • Zachary Smith,
  • Danilo Demarchi,
  • Sharath Hosali,
  • Alberto Pimpinelli,
  • Mauro Ferrari,
  • Alessandro Grattoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04133-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Transport through nanochannels is usually dominated by electrostatic interactions and depends on the charge of diffusing molecules. Here the authors show that for channel heights between 2 and 4 nanometers, transport is insensitive to molecule charge.