Salt-Excluding Artificial Water Channels Exhibiting Enhanced Dipolar Water and Proton Translocation.
Salt-Excluding Artificial Water Channels Exhibiting Enhanced Dipolar Water and Proton Translocation.
Erol Licsandru,I. Kocsis,7 Authors,M. Barboiu
2016 · DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b01811
Journal of the American Chemical Society · 116 Citations
TLDR
Artificial imidazole-quartet water channels with 2.6 Å pores, similar to AQP channels, that encapsulate oriented dipolar water-wires in a confined chiral conduit are reported, able to transport ∼10(6) water molecules/s, which is within 2 orders of magnitude of AQPs' rates, and reject all ions except protons.