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Tiny Channels Carry Big Information

Posted December 14, 2010 2:21 PM

From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

Berkeley Lab researchers have been able to fabricate nanochannels that are only two nanometers in size, using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. Already they've discovered that fluid mechanics for passages this small are significantly different not only from bulk-sized channels, but even from channels that are merely 10 nanometers in size.

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Re: Tiny Channels Carry Big Information

12/14/2010 10:11 PM

Surprise! Maybe the difference between boundary conditions only and mixed boundary/nonboundary?

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