Scale Oddity in nanofluidic transport

In this talk, I will discuss various experimental and theoretical results that we obtained recently in the Micromégas team on the transport of fluids and ions in the ultra-confinement. I will in particular focus on the odd properties of the water carbon couple, which highlights a variety of quite exotic transport properties, that we will discuss and rationalize: ultra-low friction, specific charge adsorption, non-linear transport, mechano-sensitivity, …
I will show how these specificities can be used as building blocks to build a ionic machinery, from ion pumps to artificial neuromorphic behavior.

This work was done with N. Kavokine, A. Marcotte, T. Emmerich, P. Robin, A. Poggioli, A. Niguès, A. Siria from Micromégas team, ENS Paris.


References
[1] “Fluids at nanoscales: from continuum to sub-continuum transport”, N. Kavokine, R. Netz and L. Bocquet, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (2020); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-071320-095958
[3] “Molecular streaming and voltage-gated response in Angström scale channels” T. Mouterde, A. Keerthi, A. Poggioli, S. Dar, A. Siria, A.K. Geim, L Bocquet and R. Boya, Nature 567 87 (2019)
[4] “Mechanically activated ionic transport across single digit carbon nanotubes”, A. Marcotte, T. Mouterde, A. Nigues, A. Siria and L. Bocquet, Nature Materials, 19, 1057 (2020)
[5] “Ionic Coulomb blockade as a fractional Wien effect ” N. Kavokine, S. Marbach, A. Siria, L. Bocquet, Nature Nanotechnology (2019)