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  • Title: Single-file diffusion of confined water inside SWNTs: an NMR study.
    Author: Das A, Jayanthi S, Deepak HS, Ramanathan KV, Kumar A, Dasgupta C, Sood AK.
    Journal: ACS Nano; 2010 Mar 23; 4(3):1687-95. PubMed ID: 20201566.
    Abstract:
    We report a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of confined water inside approximately 1.4 nm diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). We show that the confined water does not freeze even up to 223 K. A pulse field gradient (PFG) NMR method is used to determine the mean squared displacement (MSD) of the water molecules inside the nanotubes at temperatures below 273 K, where the bulk water outside the nanotubes freezes and hence does not contribute to the proton NMR signal. We show that the mean squared displacement varies as the square root of time, predicted for single-file diffusion in a one-dimensional channel. We propose a qualitative understanding of our results based on available molecular dynamics simulations.
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