Giant amplification of interfacially driven transport by hydrodynamic slip: Diffusio-osmosis and beyond

We demonstrate that moderate departures from the no-slip hydrodynamic boundary condition (hydrodynamic slip lengths in the nanometer range) can result in a very large enhancement-up to 2 orders of magnitude-of most interfacially driven transport phenomena. We study analytically and numerically the case of neutral solute diffusio-osmosis in a slab geometry to account for nontrivial couplings between interfacial structure and hydrodynamic slip. Possible outcomes are fast transport of particles in externally applied or self-generated gradient, and flow enhancement in nano- or microfluidic geometries.