Nanofluidics is a recent appearing research field, introduced in 1995 as an analogue of the field of microfluidics, and has been becoming popular in the past few years. The proximity of the channel dimension, the Debye length, and the size of biomolecules such as DNA and proteins gives the unique features of nanofluidic devices. Of various unique properties of the nanofluidics, mass transport in nanochannel plays determining roles in fundamental reaches and practical applications of nanofluidic device. Thus, much work including numerical and experimental researches has been performed to investigate the mass transport behaviors in nanofluidic devices. This review summarizes the fabrication technologies for nanofluidic devices, the mass transport behaviors in nanochannel, and their applications in bioanalysis. The main focus will be laid on the effects of nanochannel size and surface charge on mass transport including electrokinetic transport of charged analytes, diffusion of electric neutral molecules, ionic current rectification, concentration polarization, nonlinear electrokinetic flow at the micro-nanofluidic interfaces.
Graphitic carbon nitride（g-C3N4） was synthesized via direct pyrolysis of melamine and its electrocatalysis toward oxygen reduction reaction was studied.The morphology and structures of the products were characterized by scanning electron microscope and X-ray powder diffractometer.It was found that higher pyrolysis temperature resulted in more perfect crystalline structure of the graphitic carbon nitride product.Electrochemical characterizations show that the g-C3N4 has electrocatalytic activity toward ORR through a two-step and two-electron process.
