Molecular Dipole Osmosis Based on Induced Charge Electro-Osmosis

作者:Sugioka Hideyuki*
来源:Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2016, 85(9): 094003.
DOI:10.7566/JPSJ.85.094003

摘要

We propose a novel mechanism of producing a large nonlinear electrokinetic vortex flow around a nonconductive polar molecule in an electrolyte. That is, a large nonlinear electrokinetic slip velocity is derived by considering a local giant permittivity due to a molecular electric dipole moment with induced-charge electro-osmosis (ICEO). Different from the conventional ICEO theory, our theory predicts that a nonconductive biomaterial, such as a base of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule, has a significantly high ICEO flow velocity because of its large local permittivity. We consider that our findings will contribute markedly to promising biomedical applications.

  • 出版日期2016-9-15