Nanoscale hydrophobic interaction and nanobubble nucleation

被引：90

作者：

Koishi, T

Yoo, S

Yasuoka, K

Zeng, XC ^{[1
]}

Narumi, T

Susukita, R

Kawai, A

Furusawa, H

Suenaga, A

Okimoto, N

Futatsugi, N

Ebisuzaki, T

机构：

[1] Univ Nebraska, Dept Chem, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA

[2] RIKEN, Adv Comp Ctr, Computat Sci Div, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan

[3] Keio Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2238522, Japan

[4] RIKEN Genom Sci Ctr, Bioinformat Grp, High Performance Biocomp Res Team, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2440804, Japan

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2004年 / 93卷 / 18期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.185701

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We report large-scale atomistic simulation of midrange nanoscale hydrophobic interaction, manifested by the nucleation of nanobubble between nanometer-sized hydrophobes at constrained equilibrium. When the length scale of the hydrophobes is greater than 2 nm, the nanobubble formation shows hysteresis behavior resembling the first-order transition. Calculation of the potential of mean force versus interhydrophobe distance provides a quantitative measure of the strength of the nanoscale hydrophobic interaction.

引用

页码：185701 / 1

页数：4

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