On the outside front cover of Issue 22 we have an image from Aleksei Aksimentiev (University of Illinois) et al. highlighting their work modelling the transport of solutes through nanochannels with sticky surfaces. Their method allows Brownian dynamics simulations of nanofluidic systems with retention of atomic-scale precision in the description of solute interactions, without incurring the huge cost of molecular dynamics simulations.
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toms-to-microns model for small solute transport through sticky nanochannels
Rogan Carr, Jeffrey Comer, Mark D. Ginsberg and Aleksei Aksimentiev
On the inside front cover a paper from Carolyn Ren and colleagues at the University of Waterloo is displayed. They have sought to understand the chaos that can be created at junctions in microfluidic channels and have developed a model to describe droplet sorting in different geometries, droplet resistances and pressures.
Passive droplet trafficking at microfluidic junctions under geometric and flow asymmetries
Tomasz Glawdel, Caglar Elbuken and Carolyn Ren
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