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 …

Modeling water, the hydrophobic effect, and ion solvation

KA Dill, TM Truskett, V Vlachy… - Annu. Rev. Biophys …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Water plays a central role in the structures and properties of biomolecules—
proteins, nucleic acids, and membranes—and in their interactions with ligands and drugs …

MOLECULAR THEORY OF HYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS: “She is too mean to have her name repeated.”

LR Pratt - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This paper reviews the molecular theory of hydrophobic effects relevant to
biomolecular structure and assembly in aqueous solution. Recent progress has resulted in …

Structure of liquid water at ambient temperature from ab initio molecular dynamics performed in the complete basis set limit

HS Lee, ME Tuckerman - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Structural properties of liquid water at ambient temperature were studied using Car-
Parrinello [Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2471 (1985)] ab initio molecular dynamics (CPAIMD) …

Heat capacity changes associated with nucleic acid folding

PJ Mikulecky, AL Feig - Biopolymers: Original Research on …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Whereas heat capacity changes (ΔCPs) associated with folding transitions are
commonplace in the literature of protein folding, they have long been considered a minor …

Progress in the perturbation approach in fluid and fluid-related theories

S Zhou, JR Solana - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Since the formulation of the so-called high temperature series expansion (HTSE) by
Zwanzig, 1 thermodynamic perturbation theories developed along this line have been one of …

A two-dimensional model of water: Solvation of nonpolar solutes

T Urbič, V Vlachy, YV Kalyuzhnyi… - The Journal of chemical …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding solute–solvent interactions in aqueous solutions is important for biology and
chemistry. Several review papers have been published on this subject. 1–5 Theoretical …

Orientation-dependent integral equation theory for a two-dimensional model of water

T Urbič, V Vlachy, YV Kalyuzhnyi, KA Dill - The Journal of chemical …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
We develop an integral equation theory that applies to strongly associating orientation-
dependent liquids, such as water. In an earlier treatment, we developed a Wertheim integral …

Hierarchy of anomalies in the simple rose model of water

P Ogrin, T Urbic - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
The density, diffusion, and structural anomalies of the simple two-dimensional model of
water were determined by Monte Carlo simulations. The rose model was used which is a …

Integral equation study of the effects of rotational degrees of freedom on properties of the Mercedes–Benz water model

P Ogrin, T Urbic - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
We developed an analytical theory for studying of rotational degrees of freedom of a simple
model of liquid water. Wertheim's integral equation theory (IET) for associative liquids was …