Extreme confinement in nanochannels results in unconventional equilibrium and flow
behavior of polymers. The underlying flow physics dictating such paradigms remains far …

Selective transport of liquids is an important process in the energy and environment industry.
The increased energy consumption and the demands of clean water and fossil fuels have …

The mesoporous silica shell coating hydrogenolysis nano-catalysts alters the molecular
weight distributions of cleaved polymer chains compared to catalysts without a shell. The …

Ultrathin nanostructured membranes are widely pursued to apply into different processes
ranging from air separation to seawater desalination. Here, freestanding carbon …

We examine pressure-driven nonequilibrium transport of linear, circular, and star polymers
through a nanochannel containing a rectangular pit with full hydrodynamic interactions and …

Recent studies on the structure and transport behaviors of water confined within lamellar
graphene have attracted intense interest in filtration technology, but the mechanism of water …

The rate of water flow through hydrophobic nanocapillaries is greatly enhanced as
compared to that expected from macroscopic hydrodynamics. This phenomenon is usually …

The flow behavior of oil in nanochannels has attracted extensive attention for oil transport
applications. In most, if not all, of the prior theoretical simulations, oil molecules were …

Low flow resistance is essential for the design of nanofluidic platforms. Here, we present a
comparative atomic-level study analyzing the fundamentals of water flow enhancement in a …

Polymer transport in porous media controls many important industrial and technological
applications. Using molecular simulations with fully coupled hydrodynamic interactions, we …