不稳定性
电动现象
离子
材料科学
离子通道
机械
物理
纳米技术
化学物理
化学
量子力学
生物化学
受体
作者
Hai‐Chou Chang,Gilad Yossifon,E. A. Demekhin
出处
期刊:Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
[Annual Reviews]
日期:2012-01-21
卷期号:44 (1): 401-426
被引量:182
标识
DOI:10.1146/annurev-fluid-120710-101046
摘要
When a direct current (DC) electric field is applied across an ion-selective nanoporous membrane or a nanochannel with an overlapping Debye layer, a surprising microvortex instability occurs on the side of the membrane/channel through which counterions enter. Despite its micro and nano length scales, this instability exhibits all the hallmarks of other classical hydrodynamic instabilities—a subharmonic cascade, a wide-band fluctuation spectrum, and a coherent structure dominated by spatiotemporal dynamics. Moreover, the resulting convection enhances the ion flux into the ion-selective medium and gives rise to an overlimiting-current bifurcation in the current-voltage relationship. This hydrodynamically driven nonequilibrium ion flux does not seem to have any equivalent in cell membrane ion channels. Yet, by introducing asymmetric entrances to provide different polarized regions and/or viscous arrest of the vortex instability, one can fabricate a hydrodynamic nanofluidic diode. With other modifications, hysteretic, excitable, and oscillatory ion flux dynamics could also be elicited—all with strong hydrodynamic features.
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