8th Liquid Matter Conference September 6-10, 2011 Wien, Austria ...

P9.64Tue 611:23-14:00Liquid transport through a single nanotubeAlessandro Siria, 1 Anne-Laure Biance, 1 Christophe Ybert, 1 Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, 1 Steve Purcell, 1 Philippe Poncharal, 1 and Lyderic Bocquet 11 LPMCN, Université de Lyon, La Doua, Batiment Brillouin, 43 Bd du 11 novembre 191869122, Villeurbanne, FranceWith the developpment of nanoporous membranes in many applications as water treatmentand electro-mechanic conversion, it is interesting to characterize ionic and fluidic transport innanochannels. Recent experiments on Carbon nanotube based membranes have shown excitingresults on this topic, as they demonstrated a giant permeability, three orders of magnitude largerthan expected [1, 2]. This preliminary result, in an uncontrolled system, has been comforted byrecent molecular dynamic simulations. The simulations show that the friction in the nanotubetends to vanish when the tube radius is decreasing [3]. We propose here a model experiment inorder to study liquid transport inside one single nanotube (D=1-10 nm). Set-up fabrication andexperimental results will be presented.[1] Jason K. Holt, Hyung Gyu Park, Yinmin Wang, Michael Stadermann, Alexander B.Artyukhin, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Aleksandr Noy, Olgica Bakajin, Science, 312, 1034 (2006);[2] M. Majumder, N. Chopra, R. Andrews, B. J. Hinds, Nature, 438, 3, 44 (2005);[3] K. Falk, F. Sedlmeier, L. Joly, R. R. Netz et L. Bocquet, Nano Lett. 10, 4067 (2010) ;64