title: Measurement of the rate of water translocation through carbon nanotubes.
abstract: We present an approach for measuring the water flow rate through individual ultralong carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using field effect transistors array defined on individual tubes. Our work exhibits a rate enhancement of 882-51 and a slip length of 53-8 nm for CNTs with diameters of 0.81-1.59 nm. We also found that the enhancement factor does not increase monotonically with shrinking tube diameter and there exists a discontinuous region around 0.98-1.10 nm. We believe that these single-tube level results would help understand the intrinsic nanofluidics of water in CNTs.
authors.affiliation: Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Xingcai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Quanzi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Yapu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Shubao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Zhongfan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004058:Diffusion; D007477:Ions; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000379:methods; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D013997:Time Factors; D014783:Viscosity; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D014867:Water