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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 248, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2021.117264
Keywords
Nanoparticles; Diffusion; Microchannel; Electric field
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21808056, 91934302]
- Shanghai Interna-tional Science and Technology Collaboration Program [18160743700]
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This study demonstrates the controllable manipulation of nanoparticle diffusion in microchannels through external electric fields, which has the potential for applications in separation and delivery. The collective diffusion coefficient of nanoparticles under electric fields shows significant deviation from the molecular collective diffusion coefficient.
Controllable manipulation of the diffusion of nanoparticles through adopting external fields plays an important role in both separation and delivery of nanoparticles. This work demonstrates that external electric field can effectively enhance or suppress the collective diffusion of nanoparticles in microchannel. Collective diffusion coefficient of nanoparticles under positive or negative electric field was found to be 1.22 or 0.74 times that of the molecular collective diffusion coefficient without electric field applied, respectively. For the case of molecular collective diffusion, the collective diffusion coefficient is 5 times that of the self-diffusion coefficient. The deviation is attributed to the interparticle interactions among the multiple nanoparticles. Findings in this work can improve the understanding of readers for the col-lective diffusion of nanoparticles driven by concentration gradient under electric field. The phenomenon has great potential in the applications of separation and delivery of charged nanoparticles. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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