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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
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Rapid imbibition of fluids in carbon nanotubes
Physical Review Letters
|June 6, 2003
Abstract:
Carbon nanotubes are potential building blocks for nanofluidic devices. The way fluids flow into and fill nanotubes is therefore of wide interest; however, there are currently no experimental data or theoretical models for this nanoscale process. We have carried out molecular dynamics simulations of nanotubes imbibing oil at an oil/vapor interface at 298 K. We find that nanotubes imbibe very rapidly (

