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SUBMITTER: Keerthi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8149694 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keerthi Ashok A Goutham Solleti S You Yi Y Iamprasertkun Pawin P Dryfe Robert A W RAW Geim Andre K AK Radha Boya B
Nature communications 20210525 1
Membrane-based applications such as osmotic power generation, desalination and molecular separation would benefit from decreasing water friction in nanoscale channels. However, mechanisms that allow fast water flows are not fully understood yet. Here we report angstrom-scale capillaries made from atomically flat crystals and study the effect of confining walls' material on water friction. A massive difference is observed between channels made from isostructural graphite and hexagonal boron nitri ...[more]