title: A Switchable and Compressible Carbon Nanotube Sponge Electrocapillary Imbiber.
abstract: Carbon nanotube sponges are lightweight, conductive, highly porous, and flexible. An integration of these properties is suitable for constructing high-performance electrocapillary imbibers. Water imbibition into the sponges can be initiated at low potentials with tunable uptake rates and switched on and off reversibly. These controllable nanoporous imbibers have potential applications in a wide range of flexible micro- and nanofluidic systems.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R .China.
authors.forename: Yahui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yanbing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R .China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R .China.
authors.forename: Xiying
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Shiting
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Anyuan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R .China.|CAPT, HEDPS and IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center of MoE, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Huiling
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Duan
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D014867:Water
keywords: carbon nanotube sponges; electrocapillarity; nanofluidic systems; nanoporous imbibers; water imbibition