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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 123, Issue 38, Pages 8285-8293Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04075
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- W. M. Keck Foundation
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Ion current rectification (ICR) is a transport phenomenon in which an electrolyte conducts unequal currents at equal and opposite voltages. Here, we show that nanoscale fluid vortices and nonlinear electroosmotic flow (EOF) drive ICR in the presence of concentration gradients. The same EOF can yield negative differential resistance (NDR), in which current decreases with increasing voltage. A finite element model quantitatively reproduces experimental ICR and NDR recorded across glass nanopipettes under concentration gradients. The model demonstrates that spatial variations of electrical double layer properties induce the nanoscale vortices and nonlinear EOF. Experiments are performed in conditions directly related to scanning probe imaging and show that quantitative understanding of nanoscale transport accounting for EOF. This characterization of nanopipette transport physics will benefit resolution limits of chemical and biophysical recordings. under concentration gradients requires diverse experimentation, pushing the resolution limits of chemical and biophysical recordings.
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