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 …

Understanding hydrophobic effects: Insights from water density fluctuations

NB Rego, AJ Patel - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The aversion of hydrophobic solutes for water drives diverse interactions and assemblies
across materials science, biology, and beyond. Here, we review the theoretical …

Ultrafast hole relaxation dynamics in quantum dots revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

PJ Brosseau, JJ Geuchies, D Jasrasaria… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating the population dynamics of correlated electron-hole pairs (bound excitons) in
semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) is key for developing our fundamental understanding of …

Identifying hydrophobic protein patches to inform protein interaction interfaces

NB Rego, E Xi, AJ Patel - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Interactions between proteins lie at the heart of numerous biological processes and are
essential for the proper functioning of the cell. Although the importance of hydrophobic …

Mechanism of ion adsorption to aqueous interfaces: Graphene/water vs. air/water

DL McCaffrey, SC Nguyen, SJ Cox… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The adsorption of ions to aqueous interfaces is a phenomenon that profoundly influences
vital processes in many areas of science, including biology, atmospheric chemistry …

Local ice-like structure at the liquid water surface

NL Odendahl, PL Geissler - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Experiments and computer simulations have established that liquid water's surfaces can
deviate in important ways from familiar bulk behavior. Even in the simplest case of an air …

Learning the relationship between nanoscale chemical patterning and hydrophobicity

NB Rego, AL Ferguson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The hydrophobicity of proteins and similar surfaces, which display chemical heterogeneity at
the nanoscale, drives countless aqueous interactions and assemblies. However, predicting …

Density depletion and enhanced fluctuations in water near hydrophobic solutes: identifying the underlying physics

MK Coe, R Evans, NB Wilding - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We investigate the origin of the density depletion and enhanced density fluctuations that
occur in water in the vicinity of an extended hydrophobic solute. We argue that both …

A molecular twist on hydrophobicity

S Gómez, N Rojas-Valencia, SA Gómez… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A thorough exploration of the molecular basis for hydrophobicity with a comprehensive set of
theoretical tools and an extensive set of organic solvent S/water binary systems is discussed …

Understanding the physics of hydrophobic solvation

MK Coe, R Evans, NB Wilding - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Simulations of water near extended hydrophobic spherical solutes have revealed the
presence of a region of depleted density and accompanying enhanced density fluctuations …