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SUMMARY:Water Transport through Individual Nanotubes
DTSTART:20161212T120000
DTSTAMP:20260916T140328Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Alessandro Siria\, École Normale Supérieure (ENS)\, Pa
 ris (F)\nBIOENGINEERING SEMINAR\n\nAbstract:\n\nNanofluidics is the fronti
 er where the continuum picture of fluid mechanics confronts the atomic nat
 ure of matter. Recent reports indicate that carbon nanotubes (CNT) exhibit
  exceptional water transport properties due to nearly frictionless interfa
 ces and this has stimulated interest in nanotube-based membranes for desal
 ination\, nano-filtration\, and energy harvesting. However\, the fundament
 al mechanisms of water transport inside nanotubes and at water-carbon inte
 rfaces remain controversial\, as existing theories fail to provide a satis
 fying explanation for the limited experimental results.\n\nIn this talk we
  will present our recent experimental study on water transport through ind
 ividual nanotubes: our experiments reveal extensive and radius-dependent s
 urface slippage in carbon nanotubes. In stark contrast\, boron-nitride nan
 otubes\, which are crystallographically similar to CNTs but electronically
  different\, exhibit no slippage.\n\nOur results show that slippage origin
 ates in subtle atomic-scale details of the solid-liquid interface.\n\nBio:
 \nEDUCATION:\n2006 – 2009        PhD Thesis\, Université Joseph Fo
 urier in Grenoble\, France\n2004 – 2006        Master of Science in
  Solid State Physics\, Universitá degli Studi di Genova\, Genoa\, Italy\
 n2001 – 2004        Bachelor of Science in Physics\, Universitá d
 egli Studi di Genova\, Genoa\, Italy.\n\nRESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIE
 NCE:\n2012 –                 Young Scientist (CR2) at Centre 
 National pour la Recherche Scentifique (CNRS)\n2009 – 2012        P
 ost Doc position at the LPMCN\, CNRS and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
 \n2006 – 2009        PhD fellowship at the Institut Neel\, Grenoble
 \, France.\n2005                    2 months at the European
  Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble\, France\n2004         
            6 months at the Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei (WAS
 S) in Genoa\, Italy.
LOCATION:CM 1 105 http://map.epfl.ch/?room=cm1105
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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