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Last update: December 3, 2024
A 3rd paper about the solute size effect on the strength of hydrophobic interaction was published.
Based on the molecular simulation, we identified the thermodynamic and microscopic factors determining the solute size dependence of the solute-solute effective interaction in water.
Hidefumi Naito, Tomonari Sumi, and Kenichiro Koga, "The nature of the hydrophobic interaction varies as the solute size increases from methane's to C60's", J. Chem. Phys., 161, 214501 (2024).
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/161/21/214501/3322936
This paper is part of the JCP Special Topic on Water: Molecular Origins of its Anomalies.
This paper is selected as the cover image and Featured Article of Issue 21 of The Journal of Chemical Physics.
