Lanju Mei

TL;DR: The developed model takes into account the effects of the EDL overlap, electroosmotic flow, Stern layer, multiple ionic species, and the site dissociation/association reactions on the channel walls and is validated by the full model with the Poisson-Nernst-Planck and Navier-Stokes equations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an analytical model taking into account many practical effects, such as the Stern layer, buffer anions (e.g., HEPES, ACES, and lactic acid), electric double layers overlap, and surface equilibrium reactions, to investigate the buffer effect on the electrokinetic energy conversion in a long, pH-regulated nanochannel.

TL;DR: The gate modulation of ion transport and selectivity in the soft nanochannel functionalized with biomimetic, pH-tunable, zwitterionic polyelectrolyte (PE) brush layers is theoretically investigated for the first time.

TL;DR: The results show that the modulation of proton transport in a nanopore depends on the concentration of the background salt and solution pH, and the higher the background Salt concentration, the lower the performance of the gate control on the Proton transport.

TL;DR: The electroosmotic flow (EOF) of viscoelastic fluid in a long nanoslit is numerically studied to investigate the rheological property effect of Linear Phan-Thien-Tanner (LPTT) fluid on the fully developed EOF.