In the new work, Green and his team also investigated the Punchbowl Fault, an ancestral branch of the San Andreas Fault that has been exhumed by erosion from several kilometers depth, and
found nanometric materials within the fault — as predicted by their model.
Objective: To develop artificial «ionic machines» for active manipulation and control of ion and fluid transport through
nanometric channels, thereby imitating the functions of ionic machinery
found in nature.