Symposium NT3-Carbon Nanofluidics

Carbon nanofluidics is the study and application of fluid transport inside nanoscale graphitic conduits, including carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene nanopores/nanochannels and their corresponding membrane forms, i.e., carbon nanotube membranes, graphene nanopore membranes and graphene oxide-based membranes. This emerging research area is attracting great attention due to various unique transport phenomena such as ultrahigh flow rates and selectivity and potential applications in several technological areas including water purification/desalination, biological and chemical separations, energy storage/conversion, oil and natural gas extraction/separation, biosensing and lab-on-a-chip devices. Fluid flow through such nanoscale graphitic conduits is influenced by interfacial phenomena including effects of smooth potential-energy landscape, surface charge and adsorption, as well as by steric and structural effects that arise when the conduit size approaches the molecular length scale. Advances in this area require highly interdisciplinary theoretical and experimental efforts involving nanofabrication, materials synthesis, chemistry, and mass transport. This symposium will bring together researchers working on different experimental and theoretical aspects of carbon nanofluidics to promote exchange of ideas, methods, and develop a common understanding of the field.

• Fluidic transport in single CNTs, graphene and graphene oxide nanochannels, graphene nanopores
• Fluidic transport in CNT or carbon nanopipe membranes, nanoporous graphene membranes, and graphene oxide membranes
• Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanofluidic membranes & devices
• Experimental techniques and theoretical modeling for carbon nanofluidics studies
• Single molecule detection/analysis using CNT or graphene nanopores
• Water and molecular arrangement and structure inside nanoscale graphitic conduits
• Applications of carbon nanofluidics for lab-on-a-chip, separations, and energy conversion & storage

• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_0 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_1 (Porifera, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_2 (Boston University, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_3 (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_4 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_5 (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_6 (University of Washington, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_7 (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_8 (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_9 (Northwestern University, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_10 (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_11 (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_12 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• NT3_Carbon Nanofluidics_13 (Tsinghua University, China)