Space Electroosmotic Thrusters in Ion Partitioning Soft Nanochannels

Similarity of electroosmotic flows in nanochannels

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Electroosmotic & Pressure Driven Flows in Nanochannels

The members of the Committee appointed to examine the thesis of MIAO MIAO find it satisfactory and recommend that it be accepted. ___________________________________ Chair ___________________________________ ___________________________________ iii ACKNOLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Prashanta Dutta for the research guidance, patience and understanding during the past four years....

Electroosmotic Flow in Mixed Polymer Brush-Grafted Nanochannels

Mixed polymer brush-grafted nanochannels—where two distinct species of polymers are alternately grafted on the inner surface of nanochannels—are an interesting class of nanostructured hybrid materials. By using a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation method, we are able to simulate the electrokinetic transport dynamics of the fluid in such nanochannels as well as the conformational behav...

Mesoscopic simulations of electroosmotic flow and electrophoresis in nanochannels

We present dissipative particle (DPD) simulations of electrolyte flow in nanochannels for varying salt concentration and surface slip conditions. First, a method is presented by which the slip length δ Β at the channel boundaries can be tuned systematically from negative to infinity by introducing suitable wall-fluid friction forces. Using this method, we study electroosmotic flow (EOF) in nano...

1970-2014: From Space Ion Thrusters to Nano-Tools

In the 1970’s, Albert Crewe demonstrated with scanning transmission electron microscopy that field emission sources allowed spectacular improvement (i.e., atomic resolution) in the field of electron microscopy [1]. Several groups in the USA, Great Britain, and France began to work on point ion sources in order to bring similar improvements to ion instruments, especially to secondary ion mass sp...