Enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes

Mainak Majumder, Nitin Chopra, Rodney Andrews and Bruce J. Hinds ()
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Mainak Majumder: University of Kentucky
Nitin Chopra: University of Kentucky
Rodney Andrews: Center for Applied Energy Research
Bruce J. Hinds: University of Kentucky

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7064, 44-44

Abstract: Abstract Nanoscale structures that could mimic the selective transport and extraordinarily fast flow possible in biological cellular channels would have a wide range of potential applications. Here we show that liquid flow through a membrane composed of an array of aligned carbon nanotubes is four to five orders of magnitude faster than would be predicted from conventional fluid-flow theory. This high fluid velocity results from an almost frictionless interface at the carbon-nanotube wall.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1038/438044a

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