You would not expect water to enter a hydrophobic carbon nanotube. But computer simulations show that it can, and studying the process should provide clues about the behaviour of biological pores.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Quantum mechanical calculation of nanomaterial-ligand interaction energies by molecular fractionation with conjugated caps method
Scientific Reports Open Access 16 March 2017
-
Incipient ferroelectricity of water molecules confined to nano-channels of beryl
Nature Communications Open Access 30 September 2016
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 51 print issues and online access
$199.00 per year
only $3.90 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Hummer, G., Rasaiah, J. C. & Noworyta, J. P. Nature 414, 188–190 (2001).
Granick, S. Science 253, 1374–1379 (1991).
Klein, J. & Kumacheva, E. J. Chem. Phys. 108, 6996–7009 (1998).
Raviv, U., Laurat, P. & Klein, J. Nature 413, 51–54 (2001).
Koga, K., Gao, G. T., Tanaka, H. & Zeng, X. C. Nature 412, 802–805 (2001).
Martí, J. & Gordillo, M. C. Phys. Rev. E 64, 021504 (2001).
Tieleman, D. P., Biggin, P. C., Smith, G. R. & Sansom, M. S. P. Q. Rev. Biophys. (in the press).
Fu, D. et al. Science 290, 481–486 (2000).
Beckstein, O., Biggin, P. C. & Sansom, M. S. P. J. Phys. Chem. B (in the press).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Sansom, M., Biggin, P. Water at the nanoscale. Nature 414, 157–159 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35102651
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/35102651
This article is cited by
-
The study of heat flux and external electric field effects on carbon nanotube behavior as an atomic nano-pump
Applied Physics A (2022)
-
Anomalous changes of intermolecular distance in aqueous electrolytes in narrow pores of carbon nanotubes
Adsorption (2019)
-
Quantum mechanical calculation of nanomaterial-ligand interaction energies by molecular fractionation with conjugated caps method
Scientific Reports (2017)
-
Incipient ferroelectricity of water molecules confined to nano-channels of beryl
Nature Communications (2016)
-
On the vibrational behavior of single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes under the physical adsorption of biomolecules in the aqueous environment: a molecular dynamics study
Journal of Molecular Modeling (2016)
