Silicon microchips of size 100x100 μm with active electronic sensing and actuation reacting in a chemical environment is the vision of the research project http://www. micreagents.eu, see figure 1a. These chips, called lablets, are fabricated in standard 180nm silicon technology and will be equipped with custom developed supercapacitors allowing them to react autonomously in fluids. They are de...

09.30 Olgica Bakajin 4” CNT Membranes: Fabrication & Characterization 14.00 Alberto Striolo Using Hydration Water to Enhance the Selectivity of Membrane Separations 09.30 Michael Strano Understanding molecular transport through single, isolated nanocarbon pores 14.00 Roland Netz Effects of dielectric and viscosity profiles on electro-osmotic flow and conductivity in nanotubes 10.00 Discussion 1...

The rectification of electro-osmotic flows is important in micro- and nano-fluidics applications such as micropumps energy conversion devices. Here, we propose a simple diode which colloidal particles are contained between two parallel membranes with different pore densities. While the flow forward direction just pushes toward high-pore-density membrane, backward blocked by near low-pore-densit...