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Ionic liquids are widely used as electrolytes in electrochemical devices. In this context, many experimental and theoretical approaches have been recently developed for characterizing their interface with electrodes. In this perspective…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Céline Merlet , Benjamin Rotenberg , Paul Madden , Mathieu Salanne

Among various types of neuromorphic devices towards artificial intelligence, the electrochemical synaptic transistor emerges, in which the channel conductance is modulated by the insertion of ions according to the history of gate voltage…

A liquid volume containing dissolved solutes moves through a charged nanofluidic channel under the influence of the concentration gradient of the solutes, non-trivially modulated by the electrostatic interaction between ionic liquid and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-31 Pranab Kumar Mondal

Microfluidic channels with embedded ion permselective medium under the application of electric current are commonly used for electrokinetic processes as on-chip ion concentration polarization (ICP) and bioparticle preconcentration to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-22 Barak Sabbagh , Sinwook Park , Gilad Yossifon

Iontronic neuromorphic computing has emerged as a rapidly expanding paradigm. The arrival of angstrom-confined iontronic devices enables ultra-low power consumption with dynamics and memory timescales that intrinsically align well with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-22 T. M. Kamsma , Y. Gu , C. Spitoni , M. Dijkstra , Y. Xie , R. van Roij

The phase offset between surface charge modulation and geometric undulations in a corrugated nanochannel provides a tunable mechanism for rectified, diode-like ion transport under purely pressure-driven conditions: reversing the applied…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Thomas Petersen , Pouya Golchin , Jinwoo Im , Felipe P. J. de Barros

Synaptic plasticity, the dynamic tuning of signal transmission strength between neurons, serves as a fundamental basis for memory and learning in biological organisms. This adaptive nature of synapses is considered one of the key features…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Yechan Noh , Alex Smolyanitsky

We study colloidal particles in a nematic-liquid-crystal-filled microfluidic channel and show how elastic interactions between the particle and the channel wall lead to different particle dynamics compared with conventional microfluidics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-31 Sourav Mondal , Apala Majumdar , Ian M. Griffiths

Mechanosensitive ion transport plays a central role in enabling living systems to perceive and adapt to their environment through the deformation of soft, embedded ion channels. In this work, we demonstrate that ion transport within a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-04 Mathieu Lizée , Zhijia Zhang , Baptiste Coquinot , Qian Yang , Lydéric Bocquet

We investigate calcium signaling feedback through calcium-activated potassium channels of a dendritic spine by applying the immersed boundary method with electrodiffusion. We simulate the stochastic gating of such ion channels and the…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-28 Pilhwa Lee

Liquid crystalline media mediate interactions between suspended particles and confining geometries, which not only has potential to guide patterning and bottom-up colloidal assembly, but can also control colloidal migration in microfluidic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-12 Karolina Wamsler , Louise C. Head , Tyler N. Shendruk

The movement of ionic solutions is an essential part of biology and technology. Fluidics, from nano- to micro- to microfluidics, is a burgeoning area of technology which is all about the movement of ionic solutions, on various scales. Many…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-08 Shixin Xu , Bob Eisenberg , Zilong Song , Huaxiong Huang

We propose a method for multi-scale hybrid simulations of molecular dynamics (MD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In the method, usual lattice-mesh based simulations are applied for CFD level, but each lattice is associated with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-20 Shugo Yasuda , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Since the 1950s, soft ionic devices have evolved from individual components to an expanding library of sensors, actuators, signal transmitters, and processors. However, integrating these components into complex, multi-functional systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-17 Max Tepermeister , Meredith N. Silberstein

Non-resonant light interacting with diatomics via the polarizability anisotropy couples different rotational states and may lead to strong hybridization of the motion. The modification of shape resonances and low-energy scattering states…

The interpretation electrical phenomena in biomembranes is usually based on the assumption that the experimentally found discrete ion conduction events are due to a particular class of proteins called ion channels while the lipid membrane…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-06-17 Thomas Heimburg

The experimental control of synergistic chemomechanical dynamics of catalytically active microgels (microreactors) is a key prerequisite for the design of adaptive and biomimetic materials. Here, we report a minimalistic model of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-09 Sebastian Milster , Abeer Darwish , Nils Göth , Joachim Dzubiella

Superconducting optoelectronic loop neurons are a class of circuits potentially conducive to networks for large-scale artificial cognition. These circuits employ superconducting components including single-photon detectors, Josephson…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Bryce A. Primavera , Saeed Khan

In the absence of advection, confined diffusion characterizes transport in many natural and artificial devices, such as ionic channels, zeolites, and nanopores. While extensive theoretical and numerical studies on this subject have produced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-19 Xiang Yang , Chang Liu , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Peter Hänggi , H. P. Zhang

Unrestricted particle transport through microfluidic channels is of paramount importance to a wide range of applications, including lab-on-a-chip devices. In this article, we study using video microscopy the electro-osmotic aggregation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-02 Zhu Zhang , Joost de Graaf , Sanli Faez