Water wettability in nanoconfined environment

作     者：ZHOU YaHong GUO Wei JIANG Lei 

作者机构：Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS)Key Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy)》 (中国科学：物理学、力学、天文学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第57卷第5期

页      面：836-843页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070205[理学-凝聚态物理] 08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

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) 

主　　题：wettability nanopore hydrophobic interaction ion channels gating 

摘      要：Water confined in nanoscale space behaves quite differently from that in the *** example,in biological aquaporins and in carbon nanotubes,the traversing water molecules form a single file *** 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 *** nanopore is either fulfilled with liquid water or completely *** 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 *** 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.