Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly

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Summary

The hydrophobic effect — the tendency for oil and water to segregate — is important in diverse phenomena, from the cleaning of laundry to the creation of micro-emulsions to make new materials, to the assembly of proteins into functional complexes.

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2005-09-29
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Hydrophobic effect, Laundry, Nanotechnology, Chemical physics, Chemistry

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