Nanofluidics in two-dimensional layered materials: inspirations from nature

J Gao, Y Feng, W Guo, L Jiang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
With the advance of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology, significant progress
has been achieved in the design and application of synthetic nanofluidic devices and …

Microfluidic devices for bioapplications

LY Yeo, HC Chang, PPY Chan, JR Friend - small, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Harnessing the ability to precisely and reproducibly actuate fluids and manipulate
bioparticles such as DNA, cells, and molecules at the microscale, microfluidics is a powerful …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of nanofluidic devices

C Duan, W Wang, Q Xie - Biomicrofluidics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Thanks to its unique features at the nanoscale, nanofluidics, the study and application of
fluid flow in nanochannels/nanopores with at least one characteristic size smaller than 100 …

Nanoscale electrokinetics and microvortices: How microhydrodynamics affects nanofluidic ion flux

HC Chang, G Yossifon… - Annual review of fluid …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
When a direct current (DC) electric field is applied across an ion-selective nanoporous
membrane or a nanochannel with an overlapping Debye layer, a surprising microvortex …

Salinity-dependent contact angle alteration in oil/brine/silicate systems: the critical role of divalent cations

MEJ Haagh, I Sîretanu, MHG Duits, F Mugele - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
The effectiveness of water flooding oil recovery depends to an important extent on the
competitive wetting of oil and water on the solid rock matrix. Here, we use macroscopic …

Nanoscale pore–pore coupling effect on ion transport through ordered porous monolayers

J Yang, B Tu, M Fang, L Li, Z Tang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Distinct from the conventional view that nanopores are considered independent channels for
mass transport, recent study on the covalent organic framework (COF)-based monolayers …

Microfluidic systems with ion-selective membranes

Z Slouka, S Senapati, HC Chang - Annual Review of Analytical …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
When integrated into microfluidic chips, ion-selective nanoporous polymer and solid-state
membranes can be used for on-chip pumping, pH actuation, analyte concentration …

High current ionic diode using homogeneously charged asymmetric nanochannel network membrane

E Choi, C Wang, GT Chang, J Park - Nano letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
A high current ionic diode is achieved using an asymmetric nanochannel network
membrane (NCNM) constructed by soft lithography and in situ self-assembly of …

Modeling non-linear ion transport phenomena in ion-selective membranes: Three simplified models

DT Nguyen, VS Pham - Separation and Purification Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In electromembrane processes employing the ion concentration polarization phenomenon,
such as electrodialysis (ED), ion concentration polarization (ICP) desalination, and reverse …

Ion current rectification inversion in conic nanopores: Nonequilibrium ion transport biased by ion selectivity and spatial asymmetry

Y Yan, L Wang, J Xue, HC Chang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We show both theoretically and experimentally that the ion-selectivity of a conic nanopore,
as defined by a normalized density of the surface charge, significantly affects ion current …