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Adam FraserGraduate Student |
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408 Olney Hall Department of Chemistry University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 email: Adam_Fraser@student.uml.edu phone: 978-934-3722 |
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ResearchHydrophobic interactions play a central role in many chemical, biological and technological processes. The hydrophobic effect is related to the disruption of the hydrogen bond network in water. Details of the water structure around hydrophobic solute depend on the size of the hydrophobic species. Although the nature of hydrophobic forces is well understood, little is known about the kinetics of hydrophobic interactions. Recently, atomic force microscopy has been used to analyze the strength of hydrophobic interactions between hexadecane and fullerene molecules. I use all-atom moleculal dynamics simulations and theoretical models to describe the formation and rupture of the "hydrophobic bonds" |
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