Research Goal

The objective is to characterize transport in nanopores by studying the properties of isolated single nanofluidic channels by measuring nanochannel flow and binding characteristics of individual fluorescent probe molecules, to elucidate mechanisms involved in removal of trace contaminates with advanced water purification materials. One fundamental problem that pervades all water purification and reclamation technologies is the understanding of fluid flow and chemical reactions in restricted geometries that for structures with nanometer characteristic dimensions are fundamentally different than the same phenomena in their larger m m-scale counterparts. Therefore, macromolecules may traverse a significant fraction of a nanometer diameter channel while rotating through part of its range, thus significantly changing its transport and absorption probabilities. (NSF CAMPWS)

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Acknowledgement:

Work partially supported by National Science Foundation grant #

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