Giant osmotic energy conversion measured in a single transmembrane boron nitride nanotube

Alessandro Siria, Philippe Poncharal, Anne-Laure Biance, Rémy Fulcrand, Xavier Blase, Stephen T. Purcell and Lydéric Bocquet ()
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Alessandro Siria: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS
Philippe Poncharal: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS
Anne-Laure Biance: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS
Rémy Fulcrand: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS
Xavier Blase: Institut Néel, UPR CNRS 2940 and Université Joseph Fourier
Stephen T. Purcell: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS
Lydéric Bocquet: Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 University Lyon 1-CNRS

Nature, 2013, vol. 494, issue 7438, 455-458

Abstract: A very large, osmotically induced electric current is generated by a salinity gradient between the ends of a single boron nitride transmembrane nanotube, owing to the anomalously high surface charge carried by the nanotube’s internal surface in water at large pH.

Date: 2013
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