Recent graduate, Tamanna Khan has had her PhD work published in in Advanced Materials. Her work titled “Local Chemical Enhancement and Gating of Organic Coordinated Ionic-Electronic Transport” reports on the discovery of how ion transport can be concentrated, accelerated, and gated inside a nanochannel ‘ion superhighway.’ This was achieved by lining the nanochannel with either hydrophilic or hydrophobic molecules. The new ion mobilities in particular represent the highest ever measured for any ion in any material, while the ion conductivities are some of the highest ever reported. The gating phenomenon is, furthermore, applied in a novel chemical sensor which enables a computer to sense and characterize the dynamics of a local chemical reaction.