{"id":135122,"date":"2022-02-02T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/quantum-friction-slows-water-flow-through-carbon-nanotubes-resolving-long-standing-fluid-dynamics-mystery"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:42:54","slug":"quantum-friction-slows-water-flow-through-carbon-nanotubes-resolving-long-standing-fluid-dynamics-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/quantum-friction-slows-water-flow-through-carbon-nanotubes-resolving-long-standing-fluid-dynamics-mystery","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quantum friction\u2019 slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-friction-slows-water-flow-through-carbon-nanotubes-resolving-long-standing-fluid-dynamics-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes\u2014pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have confounded all theories of fluid dynamics; paradoxically, fluid passes more easily through narrower nanotubes, and in all nanotubes it moves with almost no friction. What friction there is has also defied explanation.<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented mashup of fluid dynamics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, researchers report in a new theoretical study published February 2 in <i>Nature<\/i> that they finally have an answer: \u2018quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/friction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">friction<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The proposed explanation is the first indication of quantum effects at the boundary of a solid and a liquid, says study lead author Nikita Kavokine, a research fellow at the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes\u2014pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have confounded all theories of fluid dynamics; paradoxically, fluid passes more easily through narrower nanotubes, and in all nanotubes it moves with almost no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}