Water structural transformation at molecular hydrophobic interfaces

Joel G. Davis, Kamil P. Gierszal, Ping Wang and Dor Ben-Amotz ()
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Joel G. Davis: Purdue University
Kamil P. Gierszal: Purdue University
Ping Wang: Purdue University
Dor Ben-Amotz: Purdue University

Nature, 2012, vol. 491, issue 7425, 582-585

Abstract: Spectroscopic measurements now reveal that at low temperatures, the water in hydrophobic hydration shells has greater tetrahedral order and fewer weak hydrogen bonds than the surrounding bulk water; this structure disappears at higher temperatures and around alcohol chains longer than 1 nanometre.

Date: 2012
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