Salinity gradients have been identified as promising clean, renewable and non-intermittent
sources of energy — so-called blue energy. However, the low efficiency of current harvesting …

Background The long-term negative effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and
their impact on physical and mental health has been widely studied. However, research about …

New models of fluid transport are expected to emerge from the confinement of liquids at the
nanoscale 1 , 2 , with potential applications in ultrafiltration, desalination and energy …

Heat can be exchanged between two surfaces through emission and absorption of thermal
radiation. It has been predicted theoretically that for distances smaller than the peak …

Measurements and simulations have found that water moves through carbon nanotubes at
exceptionally high rates owing to nearly frictionless interfaces 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . These …

We position a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centre hosted in a diamond nanocrystal at the
extremity of a SiC nanowire. This novel hybrid system couples the degrees of freedom of two …

Fine-tuned ion transport across nanoscale pores is key to many biological processes, including
neurotransmission. Recent advances have enabled the confinement of water and ions to …

In this Letter, we perform an experimental study of ionic transport and current fluctuations
inside individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The conductance exhibits a power law behavior at …

The process by which sheared suspensions go through a dramatic change in viscosity is
known as discontinuous shear thickening. Although well-characterized on the macroscale, the …

Over the past decade, the ability to reduce the dimensions of fluidic devices to the nanometre
scale (by using nanotubes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 – 5 or nanopores 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 – 11 , for example) …