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LANGMUIR
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 5166-5171Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la7035967
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The diffusive transport rate in a soft matter nanofluidic device is controlled with a thermoactuated hydrogel valve. The device consists of three giant unilamellar vesicles linearly conjugated by lipid nanotubes, with a solution of the stimuli-responsive polymer poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAAm) in the central vesicle. The valve states high (transport) rate and low (transport) rate are obtained by heat-activated switching between PNIPAAm's dissolved and compact aggregated states. We show that three parameters influence the diffusion rate within the device: the increase of the transport rate caused by a decrease in PNIPAAm concentration upon compaction, the temperature dependence of the buffer viscosity, and the volume excluded by the PNIPAAm hydrogel compartment.
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