Water wettability in nanoconfined environment  

作　　者：ZHOU YaHong GUO Wei JIANG Lei 

机构地区：[1]Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS),Key Laboratory of Organic Solids,Institute of Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences

出　　处：《Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy)》2014年第5期836-843,共8页中国科学：物理学、力学、天文学（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Research Fund for Fundamental Key Projects(Grant No.2011CB935700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11290163,21103201,91127025 and 21121001);the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KJZD-EW-M01)

摘　　要：Water confined in nanoscale space behaves quite differently from that in the bulk.For example,in biological aquaporins and in carbon nanotubes,the traversing water molecules form a single file configuration.Water would stay in vapor state in extremely hydrophobic narrow nanopores owing to the physicochemical interactions between the water molecules and the surface of the nanopore.A spontaneous wet-dry transition has been identified in both biological and artificial nanopores.The nanopore is either fulfilled with liquid water or completely empty.Based on this mechanism,the wetting and dewetting processes inside nanopores have been further developed into highly efficient nanofluidic gates that can be switched by external stimuli,such as light irradiation,electric potential,temperature,and mechanical pressure.This review briefly covers the recent progress in the special wettability in nanoconfined environment,water transportation through biological or artificial nanochannels,as well as the smart nanofluidic gating system controlled by the water wettability.Water confined in nanoscale space behaves quite differently from that in the bulk. For example, in biological aquaporins and in car- bon nanotubes, the traversing water molecules form a single file configuration. Water would stay in vapor state in extremely hydro- phobic narrow nanopores owing to the physicochemical interactions between the water molecules and the surface of the nanopore. A spontaneous wet-dry transition has been identified in both biological and artificial nanopores. The nanopore is either fulfilled with liquid water or completely empty. Based on this mechanism, the wetting and dewetting processes inside nanopores have been further developed into highly efficient nanofluidic gates that can be switched by external stimuli, such as light irradiation, electric potential, temperature, and mechanical pressure. This review briefly covers the recent progress in the special wettability in nanoconfined envi- ronment, water transportation through biological or artificial nanochannels, as well as the smart nanofluidic gating system controlled by the water wettability.

关 键 词：WETTABILITY NANOPORE hydrophobic interaction ion channels GATING 

分 类 号：TB383.1[一般工业技术—材料科学与工程]