Why are carbon nanotubes fast transporters of water?

By S. Joseph, N. Aluru. Nano letters (Print), 2008

774 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2a4854751778673d03bcb215d4396cbccc7b821a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Ottoleo Kuter-Arnebeck
2. A. McGaughey
3. John A. Thomas
4. Othonas A. Moultos
5. Guoqi Zhang
6. Tianling Ren
7. Victor P. Maslov
8. A. Noy

In Materials Chemistry

1. Ottoleo Kuter-Arnebeck
2. John A. Thomas
3. A. McGaughey
4. Victor P. Maslov
5. M. Kaviany
6. D. Mattia
7. Francesco Calabrò
8. Baoling Huang

Citations in the corpus

• Pressure-driven water flow through carbon nanotubes: Insights from molecular dynamics simulation (2010, methodology): “This approximation is justified due to the high vibrational frequencies of carbon atoms in a CNT compared to those in liquid water [ 17 ].”
• A review of small heat pipes for electronics (2016, background): “A recent theoretical investigation [81-83] included a molecular dynamics (MD) study of rapid water transport in CNT.”
• Ion exclusion by sub-2-nm carbon nanotube pores (2008, background): “MD simulations have revealed the importance of water ordering near the smooth hydrophobic walls to facilitate enhanced, frictionless water transport (52).”