How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies

E Brini, CJ Fennell, M Fernandez-Serra… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
How are water's material properties encoded within the structure of the water molecule? This
is pertinent to understanding Earth's living systems, its materials, its geochemistry and …

Homogeneous liquid–liquid extraction as an alternative sample preparation technique for biomedical analysis

SF Hammad, IA Abdallah, A Bedair… - Journal of separation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid‐liquid extraction is a widely used technique of sample preparation in biomedical
analysis. In spite of the high pre‐concentration capacities of liquid–liquid extraction, it suffers …

Ions from the Hofmeister series and osmolytes: effects on proteins in solution and in the crystallization process

KD Collins - Methods, 2004 - Elsevier
Sephadex G-10 gel sieving chromatography, Jones-Dole viscosity B coefficients, and
solution neutron and X-ray diffraction are used to show that small ions of high charge density …

How ions affect the structure of water

B Hribar, NT Southall, V Vlachy… - Journal of the American …, 2002 - ACS Publications
We model ion solvation in water. We use the MB model of water, a simple two-dimensional
statistical mechanical model in which waters are represented as Lennard-Jones disks …

Harvesting Thermal Energy and Freshwater from Air through Sorption Thermal Battery Enabled by Polyzwitterionic Gel

H Shan, Z Zeng, X Yang, P Poredoš, J Yu… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Utilizing hygroscopic materials for water sorption and desorption from the atmosphere
involves the capture, storage, and release of both water and heat. Herein, we introduce a …

Characterizing hydrophobicity of interfaces by using cavity formation, solute binding, and water correlations

R Godawat, SN Jamadagni… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Hydrophobicity is often characterized macroscopically by the droplet contact angle.
Molecular signatures of hydrophobicity have, however, remained elusive. Successful …

Hydrophobicity of proteins and interfaces: Insights from density fluctuations

SN Jamadagni, R Godawat… - Annual review of chemical …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Macroscopic characterizations of hydrophobicity (eg, contact angle measurements) do not
extend to the surfaces of proteins and nanoparticles. Molecular measures of hydrophobicity …

Adsorption of synthetic organic chemicals by carbon nanotubes: effects of background solution chemistry

S Zhang, T Shao, SSK Bekaroglu, T Karanfil - Water Research, 2010 - Elsevier
With the significant increase in the production and use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), they will
be inevitably released into aquatic environments. Therefore, the fate and transport of CNTs …

Effect of ions on the hydrophobic interaction between two plates

R Zangi, M Hagen, BJ Berne - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the solvent mediated attraction and
drying between two nanoscale hydrophobic surfaces in aqueous salt solutions. We study …

Specific ion and buffer effects on protein–protein interactions of a monoclonal antibody

D Roberts, R Keeling, M Tracka… - Molecular …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Better predictive ability of salt and buffer effects on protein–protein interactions requires
separating out contributions due to ionic screening, protein charge neutralization by ion …