Electrochemical modeling and characterization of voltage operated channels in nano-bio-electronics

In this article, the electrical characterization of Voltage Operated ionic Channels (VOCs) in Nano-Bio-Electronics applications is carried out. This is one of the relevant steps towards a multi-physics description of hybrid bio-electronical devices such as bio-chips. Electrochemical ionic transport phenomena are properly modeled by a Poisson-Nernst-Planck partial differential system of nonlinearly coupled equations, while suitable functional iteration techniques for problem decoupling and finite element methods for discretization are proposed and discussed.