An Open-Source Framework for Measurement and Analysis of Nanoscale Ionic Transport

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Autori principali: Wang, Yichao, Fang, Munan, Lokhandwala, Aziz Roshanbhai, Pandey, Siddhi Vinayak, Radha, Boya
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Wang, Yichao
Fang, Munan
Lokhandwala, Aziz Roshanbhai
Pandey, Siddhi Vinayak
Radha, Boya
author_facet Wang, Yichao
Fang, Munan
Lokhandwala, Aziz Roshanbhai
Pandey, Siddhi Vinayak
Radha, Boya
contents Nanofluidic systems exploit nanometre-scale confinement in channels and pores to regulate ionic transport, enabling functionalities such as osmotic energy harvesting and neuromorphic ionic memory. Studying such confined transport requires both precise electrical instrumentation and careful data analysis, yet, in practice, measurements are still often taken with vendor software, exported as files, and processed later in separate environments. In this work, we bring these steps together in a unified Python-based framework built around three interoperable graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for nanochannel, nanopore and memristor experiments. The framework is organised into two functional parts, measurement and analysis. On the measurement side, two GUIs drive Keithley Source Meters to run continuous voltage sweeps and user-defined memristive pulse sequences, while providing live plots, configuration management and controlled shutdown routines. On the analysis side, a dedicated nanochannel and nanopore GUI reads raw I-V datasets, applies unit-consistent processing, extracts conductance and ion mobility, evaluates selectivity and osmotic power, and is complemented by a web-based calculator that performs the same mobility analysis without a local Python installation. All three GUIs are implemented in Python/Tkinter with modular plotting and logging layers so that flexible control sequences and physics-based post-processing share a common data format, improving reproducibility, timing stability and day-to-day efficiency in nanofluidic and electronic device studies.
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spellingShingle An Open-Source Framework for Measurement and Analysis of Nanoscale Ionic Transport
Wang, Yichao
Fang, Munan
Lokhandwala, Aziz Roshanbhai
Pandey, Siddhi Vinayak
Radha, Boya
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Applied Physics
Nanofluidic systems exploit nanometre-scale confinement in channels and pores to regulate ionic transport, enabling functionalities such as osmotic energy harvesting and neuromorphic ionic memory. Studying such confined transport requires both precise electrical instrumentation and careful data analysis, yet, in practice, measurements are still often taken with vendor software, exported as files, and processed later in separate environments. In this work, we bring these steps together in a unified Python-based framework built around three interoperable graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for nanochannel, nanopore and memristor experiments. The framework is organised into two functional parts, measurement and analysis. On the measurement side, two GUIs drive Keithley Source Meters to run continuous voltage sweeps and user-defined memristive pulse sequences, while providing live plots, configuration management and controlled shutdown routines. On the analysis side, a dedicated nanochannel and nanopore GUI reads raw I-V datasets, applies unit-consistent processing, extracts conductance and ion mobility, evaluates selectivity and osmotic power, and is complemented by a web-based calculator that performs the same mobility analysis without a local Python installation. All three GUIs are implemented in Python/Tkinter with modular plotting and logging layers so that flexible control sequences and physics-based post-processing share a common data format, improving reproducibility, timing stability and day-to-day efficiency in nanofluidic and electronic device studies.
title An Open-Source Framework for Measurement and Analysis of Nanoscale Ionic Transport
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00806