Effect of hydrophobic nanopatches within an ionic surface on the structure of liquids.
The structures of liquid water and isopropanol have been studied as a function of the size of a hydrophobic patch present in a model hydrophilic surface via molecular dynamics simulations. A significant anisotropy extending into the first few solvent layers is found over the patch which suggests implications for many real-world systems in which nanoscale heterogeneity is found.
School of Maths and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK. t.youngs@qub.ac.uk
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Christopher
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