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 …

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 …

Desalination at overlimiting currents: State-of-the-art and perspectives

VV Nikonenko, AV Kovalenko, MK Urtenov… - Desalination, 2014 - Elsevier
For about 60 years, it is known that “limiting current” density does not really limit the current
density in electrodialysis (ED). The use of intensive currents allows one to decrease the area …

Microscale electrodialysis: Concentration profiling and vortex visualization

R Kwak, G Guan, WK Peng, J Han - Desalination, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, the microscale experimental model system for studying electrodialysis (ED)
process is described, which is used for visualizing in situ fluid flow and concentration profile …

Experimental verification of overlimiting current by surface conduction and electro-osmotic flow in microchannels

S Nam, I Cho, J Heo, G Lim, MZ Bazant, DJ Moon… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Direct evidence is provided for the transition from surface conduction (SC) to electro-osmotic
flow (EOF) above a critical channel depth (d) of a nanofluidic device. The dependence of the …

Charge inversion, water splitting, and vortex suppression due to DNA sorption on ion-selective membranes and their ion-current signatures

Z Slouka, S Senapati, Y Yan, HC Chang - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
The physisorption of negatively charged single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) of different lengths
onto the surface of anion-exchange membranes is sensitively shown to alter the anion flux …

Tutorial review: Enrichment and separation of neutral and charged species by ion concentration polarization focusing

B Berzina, RK Anand - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Ion concentration polarization focusing (ICPF) is an electrokinetic technique, in which
analytes are enriched and separated along a localized electric field gradient in the presence …

Evolution with time of hydrophobicity and microrelief of a cation-exchange membrane surface and its impact on overlimiting mass transfer

ND Pismenskaya, VV Nikonenko… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Surface properties were measured together with electrochemical characteristics of a CMX
(Neosepta, Tokuyama Corp.) cation-exchange membrane. Relative hydrophobicity was …

Template-free lithography for cross-scale channels towards enhancing nanofluidic devices

L Wu, K Shang, T Chen, C Feng, T Yang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanofluidic devices act a critical role in many inter-/multidisciplinary research fields
including single-molecule DNA sequencing and (bio-) chemical detection because of their …

Experimental observation of phenomena developing on ion-exchange systems during current-voltage curve measurement

T Belloň, P Polezhaev, L Vobecká, M Svoboda… - Journal of Membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ion-exchange systems represented, for example, by ion-exchange membranes or ion-
exchange resin particles exhibit nonlinear current-voltage curves on which one finds three …