National Center for Design of
Biomimetic Nanoconductors

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Water-filled Silica Pore...

Counter-clockwise from upper left: water-filled silica pore unit cell; silica pore functionalized with -CH₂NH⁺₃(water removed for clarity); expanded view of a -CH₂NH₂ group in the process of abstracting a proton from H₂O; total number of -NH⁺₃ groups as a function of time in two AIMD trajectories, starting with 0 and 11 -NH⁺₃ respectively. The first three panels are AIMD snapshots, and periodic boundary conditions apply in all three directions. Green spheres: Si; red/yellow: O; blue: N; white: H; grey: C.

The National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors is funded by Grant Number PHS 2 PN2 EY016570B from the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and is based at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Partner institutions include University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Wabash College, University of California, Davis, and the University of New Mexico, University of Illinois at Chicago, Weill Cornell Medical College, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.