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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 34, Pages 13300-13303Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja205773a
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- National Science Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
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Ion current rectification that occurs in conical-shaped glass nanopores in low ionic strength solutions is shown to be dependent on the rate of pressure-driven electrolyte flow through the nanopore, decreasing with increasing flow rate. The dependence of the i-V response on pressure is due to the disruption of cation and anion distributions at equilibrium within the nanopore. Because the flow rate is proportional to the third power of the nanopore orifice radius, the pressure-driven flow can eliminate rectification in nanopores with radii of similar to 200 nm but has a negligible influence on rectification in a smaller nanopore with a radius of similar to 30 nm. The experimental results are in qualitative agreement with predictions based on finite-element simulations used to solve simultaneously the Nernst-Planck, Poisson, and Navier-Stokes equations for ion fluxes in a moving electrolyte within a conical nanopore.
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