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SUMMARY:Nanofluidics in physics and biology
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141029
DTSTAMP:20261002T033642Z
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DESCRIPTION:CECAM - Loïc Auvray\, Lydéric Bocquet\, Jerome Mathe\, Fabi
 en Montel\, Aleksandra Radenovic\nThe highly intrincated nature of the int
 eractions in nanochannels is a major challenge in order to rationalize and
  simulate transport in nanofluidic systems. The emerging consensus in the 
 field is that a synergy between computational\, theoretical\, and new expe
 rimental approaches is required in the next few years.\nThis proposal foll
 ows the discussion meeting organized in Institut Henry Poincaré in May 20
 13 in the framework of the CFCAM node. A large part of the proposed partic
 ipants were already attending to this meeting and have wished to be part o
 f a CECAM workshop on the same thematics but with a larger scope in physic
 s and biology.\nOn the experimental side\, advancing our fundamental under
 standing of fluid and molecule transport on the smallest scales requires f
 luid and molecular dynamics to be ultimately characterized across an indiv
 idual channel to avoid averaging over many pores. A major challenge for na
 nofluidics thus lies in building distinct and well-controlled nanochannels
 \, amenable to the systematic exploration of their properties. There has b
 een accordingly a intense effort to build new natural or artificial channe
 ls made either by transforming cyclic molecules\, or based on the developm
 ent of nanofabrication and heavy ions track etch techniques\, such as focu
 sed ion beam and electron beam. Furthermore channels made of individual ca
 rbon or boron-nitride nanotubes were developed using nano-assembly techniq
 ues using nanotubes as nanoscale building blocks.\nNevertheless\, many cha
 llenges are still ahead in this field. First\, the fundamental physics of 
 the transport in nanochannels are still poorly understood (force control d
 uring macromolecule translocation\, explored energetic landscape\, new flu
 id properties\, …). Then\, the studied channels are seen as passive obje
 cts and the idea of active biomimetic systems used to produce controlled n
 ano-object still has to be developed.
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