Pumping of water by rotating chiral carbon nanotube.

@article{Feng2014PumpingOW,
  title={Pumping of water by rotating chiral carbon nanotube.},
  author={Jia-wei Feng and Hong-ming Ding and Chun-Lai Ren and Yu-qiang Ma},
  journal={Nanoscale},
  year={2014},
  volume={6 22},
  pages={
          13606-12
        }
}
Water transportation inside carbon nanotubes is of great importance for designing novel nanodevices. In this article, by using molecular dynamics simulations, we systematically investigate the pumping of water by rotating carbon nanotube (CNT). It is found that the chirality and rotation of the CNT are two preconditions for stable water flux inside it. Besides, we find that the water flux shows an approximately logarithmic dependence on the angular velocity of the rotation, a linear dependence… 
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