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Aug 2026
Light-Triggered Decoding of Hydrophobic Interactions in Living Systems
The hydrophobic effect is central to biological organization, underlying membrane assembly, molecular recognition, and protein folding. Despite its importance, spatiotemporal control of hydrophobicity is challenging because it emerges from collective solvation free-energy effects around hydrocarbon frameworks whose C...
Peng Ji, Stormi R. Chadwick, Alexander Harjung et al.
· Journal of the American Chem... · 0 citations