Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins
Abstract
Fast water transport through carbon nanotube pores has raised the possibility to use them in the next generation of water treatment technologies. In this paper, we report that water permeability in 0.8-nanometer-diameter carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs), which confine water down to a single-file chain, exceeds that of biological water transporters and of wider CNT pores by an order of magnitude. Intermolecular hydrogen-bond rearrangement, required for entry into the nanotube, dominates the energy barrier and can be manipulated to enhance water transport rates. CNTPs block anion transport, even at salinities that exceed seawater levels, and their ion selectivity can be tuned to configure them into switchable ionic diodes. Lastly, these properties make CNTPs a promising material for developing membrane separation technologies.
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
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- 1434817
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- OSTI ID: 1466168
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- LLNL-JRNL-725791
Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075; /sci/357/6353/792.atom
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- AC52-07NA27344; AC02-05CH11231
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Science Journal Volume: 357 Journal Issue: 6353; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
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- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Tunuguntla, Ramya H., Henley, Robert Y., Yao, Yun-Chiao, Pham, Tuan Anh, Wanunu, Meni, and Noy, Aleksandr. Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1126/science.aan2438.
Tunuguntla, Ramya H., Henley, Robert Y., Yao, Yun-Chiao, Pham, Tuan Anh, Wanunu, Meni, & Noy, Aleksandr. Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2438
Tunuguntla, Ramya H., Henley, Robert Y., Yao, Yun-Chiao, Pham, Tuan Anh, Wanunu, Meni, and Noy, Aleksandr. Thu .
"Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2438.
@article{osti_1434817,
title = {Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins},
author = {Tunuguntla, Ramya H. and Henley, Robert Y. and Yao, Yun-Chiao and Pham, Tuan Anh and Wanunu, Meni and Noy, Aleksandr},
abstractNote = {Fast water transport through carbon nanotube pores has raised the possibility to use them in the next generation of water treatment technologies. In this paper, we report that water permeability in 0.8-nanometer-diameter carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs), which confine water down to a single-file chain, exceeds that of biological water transporters and of wider CNT pores by an order of magnitude. Intermolecular hydrogen-bond rearrangement, required for entry into the nanotube, dominates the energy barrier and can be manipulated to enhance water transport rates. CNTPs block anion transport, even at salinities that exceed seawater levels, and their ion selectivity can be tuned to configure them into switchable ionic diodes. Lastly, these properties make CNTPs a promising material for developing membrane separation technologies.},
doi = {10.1126/science.aan2438},
journal = {Science},
number = 6353,
volume = 357,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {8}
}
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