Response to Comment on "Enhanced water permeability and tunable ion selectivity in subnanometer carbon nanotube porins".

Tunuguntla, Ramya H; Zhang, Yuliang; Henley, Robert Y; Yao, Yun-Chiao; Pham, T Anh; Wanunu, Meni; Noy, Aleksandr · Science · 2018

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Abstract

Horner and Pohl argue that high water transport rates reported for carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs) originate from leakage at the nanotube-bilayer interface. Our results and new experimental evidence are consistent with transport through the nanotube pores and rule out a defect-mediated transport mechanism. Mechanistic origins of the high Arrhenius factor that we reported for narrow CNTPs at pH 8 require further investigation.

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