Fluid Transport in Materials of Nanoscale Dimensions

该项目旨在通过确定耦合的界面传热和传质屏障来改变纳米尺度材料中流体传输的建模，这对传输产生了重要影响。其结果将不仅是新的知识的影响，固有的结构变形和障碍的流体流动，但也尖端技术，以估计系统的尺寸依赖的传输系数在纳米系统。这些将通过有针对性的分子动力学模拟和实验相结合来实现，并将对纳米技术和催化，气体分离，人类健康和纳米流体的新兴过程产生深远的影响，并能够设计更有效的系统。

This project aims to transform the modelling of fluid transport in materials of nanoscale dimension by determining the coupled interfacial heat and mass-transfer barriers, which critically influence the transport. The outcome will not only be new knowledge on the effects of inherent structural distortion and of the barriers on the fluid flow, but also cutting-edge techniques to estimate system size-dependent transport coefficients in nanoscale systems. These will be achieved through a combination of targeted molecular dynamics simulations and experiment, and will have far-reaching implications for nanotechnology and emerging processes in catalysis, gas separation, human health and nanofluidics, and enable design of more efficient systems.