期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES
卷 210, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.106754
关键词
Nanofluidic diode; Temperature dependent surface charge; Ionic current rectification; Electrical double layer; Lattice Boltzmann method
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51676107, 51176089]
- UTokyo-Tsinghua Collaborative Research Fund
This study theoretically demonstrates that the ionic rectification property of a nanochannel can be manipulated by applying temperature gradients. The direction of the temperature gradient significantly affects the rectification ratio. The influence of bulk ionic strength and tip height on the rectification ratio is also explored, providing insights into the overlapping and non-overlapping regimes of electrical double layers.
Diverse ionic current rectification methods for nanofluidic chips have recently emerged. Herein, we theoretically demonstrate that by applying a temperature gradient to the aqueous solution, the ionic rectification property of a tapered nanochannel can be manipulated by applying temperature gradients from the tip to base and vice versa. Our modeling results reveal that the rectification ratio can be significantly enhanced by applying a temperature increment from the base to tip, whereas the rectification ratio is significantly suppressed by applying a reverse temperature gradient. In addition to the solution temperature, we also investigated the influence of bulk ionic strength and tip height on the rectification ratio, thereby providing overlapping and non-overlapping regimes of electrical double layers. We demonstrate that the rectification behavior of a tapered nanochannel is determined by the overlapping regime of the electrical double layer at the tip of the nanochannel. Moreover, we propose a semi-analytical solution that can capture numerical results with the same order of magnitude. We expect that the modeling results of this contribution can provide a direction for understanding ionic transport across geometrically and thermally asymmetrical media, which could find applications from energy conversion to logical nanofluidic chip components.
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