Karnik Rohit, Duan Chuanhua, Castelino Kenneth, Daiguji Hirofumi, Majumdar Arun
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Nano Lett. 2007 Mar;7(3):547-51. doi: 10.1021/nl062806o. Epub 2007 Feb 21.
We demonstrate rectification of ionic transport in a nanofluidic diode fabricated by introducing a surface charge discontinuity in a nanofluidic channel. Device current-voltage (I-V) characteristics agree qualitatively with a one-dimensional model at moderate to high ionic concentrations. This study illustrates ionic flow control using surface charge patterning in nanofluidic channels under high bias voltages.