Fluctuation-induced and quantum effects in nanofluidic transport (opens in new tab)

The hydrodynamic wall has traditionally been considered a featureless object, whose only role is to provide a boundary for fluid flow. Yet, there is now ample evidence that at nanometer scales, liquid flows are sensitive to the wall's internal -- in particular, electronic -- degrees of freedom. Here, after reviewing the experimental evidence for nanoscale liquid-electron couplings, we present the theoretical advances that have allowed for thei...