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Simultaneous thermoosmotic and thermoelectric responses in nanoconfined electrolyte solutions: Effects of nanopore structures and membrane properties
Wenyao Zhang, Muhammad Farhan, Kai Jiao +5
Hypothesis: Nanofluidic systems provide an emerging and efficient platform for thermoelectric conversion and fluid pumping with low-grade heat energy. As a basis of their performan…
Ion steric effect induces giant enhancement of thermoelectric conversion in electrolyte-filled nanochannels
Wenyao Zhang, Xinxi Liu, Kai Jiao +3
Ionic thermoelectricity in nanochannels has received increasing attention because of its advantages such as high Seebeck coefficient and low cost. However, most studies have focuse…
Thermoelectric effect and temperature-gradient-driven electrokinetic flow of electrolyte solutions in charged nanocapillaries
Wenyao Zhang, Qiuwang Wang, Min Zeng +1
A systematic theoretical study of thermoelectric effect and temperature-gradient-driven electrokinetic flow of electrolyte solutions in charged nanocapillaries is presented. The st…
Temperature-gradient-induced electrokinetic flow and thermoelectricity of electrolyte solutions in a capillaries
Wenyao Zhang, Qiuwang Wang, Min Zeng +1
A systematic theoretical study of temperature-gradient-induced electrokinetic flow and thermoelectric potential of electrolyte solutions in a micro-/nanocapillary is presented. The…
AC electrokinetic phenomena over semiconductive surfaces: effective electric boundary conditions and their applications
Cunlu Zhao, Chun Yang
Electrokinetic boundary conditions are derived for AC electrokinetic (ACEK) phenomena over leaky dielectric (i.e., semiconducting) surfaces. Such boundary conditions correlate the…
Numerical analysis of dynamic electro-osmotic flows of non-Newtonian fluids in rectangular microchannels
Cunlu Zhao, Chun Yang
Numerical analyses of transient electro-osmosis of a typical non-Newtonian liquid induced by DC and AC electric fields in a rectangular microchannel are conducted in the framework…
Electroosmotic mobilities of non-Newtonian fluids
Cunlu Zhao, Chun Yang
Numerical analyses of transient electro-osmosis of a typical non-Newtonian liquid induced by DC and AC electric fields in a rectangular microchannel are conducted in the framework…
Induced Charge Electrokinetic Phenomena in Tapered Conducting Nanochannels
Cunlu Zhao, Chun Yang
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation 1
Electroosmosis in conducting nanofluidic channels
Cunlu Zhao, Chun Yang
Theoretical modeling of electroosmosis through conducting (ideally polarizable) nanochannels is reported. Based on the theory of induced charge electrokinetics, a novel nanofluidic…