Extended surfaces modulate and can catalyze hydrophobic effects

Details Extended surfaces modulate and can catalyze hydrophobic effects Extended surfaces modulate and can catalyze hydrophobic effects

2011-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0907v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages, 5 figures

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Interfaces are a most common motif in complex systems. To understand how the presence of interfaces affect hydrophobic phenomena, we use molecular simulations and theory to study hydration of solutes at interfaces. The solutes range in size from sub-nanometer to a few nanometers. The interfaces are self-assembled monolayers with a range of chemistries, from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. We show that the driving force for assembly in the vicinity of a hydrophobic surface is weaker than that in bulk water, and decreases with increasing temperature, in contrast to that in the bulk. We explain these distinct features in terms of an interplay between interfacial fluctuations and excluded volume effects---the physics encoded in Lum-Chandler-Weeks theory [J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 4570--4577 (1999)]. Our results suggest a catalytic role for hydrophobic interfaces in the unfolding of proteins, for example, in the interior of chaperonins and in amyloid formation.

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