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Models of the hydrophobic attraction
S. Hormoz, B. Widom
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10.3254/978-1-61499-071-0-1
Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"
Volume 176: Complex Materials in Physics and Biology
Abstract

The nature of effective attractive forces between hydrophobic solute molecules in a polar solvent is described. We discuss the properties of the pair distribution functions, characterizing the correlations between the solvents molecules and those between the solute molecules in the limit of infinite dilution. Analytical expressions in one-dimension show that under appropriate thermodynamic conditions, the solute-solute correlations remain discernible at much greater distances compared to that of the solvent molecules. We also present an attempt at going beyond one dimension.

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