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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2012

Simple model of hydrophobic hydration.

Miha Lukšič, Tomaz Urbic, Barbara Hribar-Lee, Ken A Dill

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Miha LukšičFaculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Tomaz Urbic
Barbara Hribar-Lee
Ken A Dill

Funding

Modeling Aqueous Solvation in BiologyR01GM063592 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DILL, KEN A · 2001 to 2018
$4.3M
Modeling Aqueous Solvation in BiologyR56GM063592 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DILL, KEN A · 2009 to 2009
$330k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM063592NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM063592NIGMS NIH HHS R56 GM063592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water is an unusual liquid in its solvation properties. Here, we model the process of transferring a nonpolar solute into water. Our goal was to capture the physical balance between water's hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions in a model that is simple enough to be nearly analytical and not heavily computational. We develop a 2-dimensional Mercedes-Benz-like model of water with which we compute the free energy, enthalpy, entropy, and the heat capacity of transfer as a function of temperature, pressure, and solute size. As validation, we find that this model gives the same trends as Monte Carlo simulations of the underlying 2D model and gives qualitative agreement with experiments. The advantages of this model are that it gives simple insights and that computational time is negligible. It may provide a useful starting point for developing more efficient and more realistic 3D models of aqueous solvation.

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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsModels, ChemicalHydrogen BondingMonte Carlo MethodPressureSolventsTemperatureThermodynamicsWaterSolventsWater

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PMID22564051
PMCPMC5234790

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