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A multi-scale model for fluid transport through a bio-inspired passive valve
Tillandsia landbeckii is a rootless plant thriving in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert of Chile. These plants use unique cellulose-based …
Simon Gravelle
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Jacques Dumais
Posted Jan 1, 2020
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Design of a unidirectional water valve in Tillandsia
The bromeliad Tillandsia landbeckii thrives in the Atacama desert of Chile using the fog captured by specialized leaf trichomes to …
Pascal S Raux
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Simon Gravelle
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Jacques Dumais
Posted Jan 1, 2020
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Hydrodynamic slip can align thin nanoplatelets in shear flow
The large-scale processing of nanomaterials such as graphene and MoS2 relies on understanding the flow behaviour of nanometrically-thin …
Catherine Kamal
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Simon Gravelle
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Lorenzo Botto
Posted Jan 1, 2020
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Liquid exfoliation of multilayer graphene in sheared solvents: A molecular dynamics investigation
Liquid-phase exfoliation, the use of a sheared liquid to delaminate graphite into few-layer graphene, is a promising technique for the …
Simon Gravelle
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Catherine Kamal
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Lorenzo Botto
Posted Jan 1, 2020
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Adsorption kinetics in open nanopores as a source of low-frequency noise
Ionic current measurements through solid-state nanopores consistently show a power spectral density that scales as 1/f α at low …
Simon Gravelle
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Roland R Netz
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Lyderic Bocquet
Posted Jan 1, 2019
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Flow-induced shift of the Donnan equilibrium for ultra-sensitive mass transport measurement through a single nanochannel
Despite mass flow being arguably the most elementary transport associated with nanofluidics, its measurement still constitutes a …
Simon Gravelle
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Christophe Ybert
Posted Jan 1, 2019
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Anomalous capillary filling and wettability reversal in nanochannels
This work revisits capillary filling dynamics in the regime of nanometric to subnanometric channels. Using molecular dynamics …
Simon Gravelle
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Christophe Ybert
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Lydéric Bocquet
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Laurent Joly
Posted Jan 1, 2016
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Carbon membranes for efficient water-ethanol separation
We demonstrate, on the basis of molecular dynamics simulations, the possibility of an efficient water-ethanol separation using …
Simon Gravelle
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Hiroaki Yoshida
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Laurent Joly
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Christophe Ybert
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Lydéric Bocquet
Posted Jan 1, 2016
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Forces behind plant cell division
The cell theory developed in the early 19th century teaches us that only cells beget cells (1). As a consequence, the evolution of life …
Adrien Guérin
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Simon Gravelle
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Jacques Dumais
Posted Jan 1, 2016
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Nanofluidics: a pedagogical introduction
Nanofluidics is the study of fluids confined in structures of nanometric dimensions (typically 1−100 nm). Fluids confined in these …
Simon Gravelle
Posted Jan 1, 2016
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