Cavity surfaces

Paschual-Ahuir J L, E Silla, J Tomasi and R Bonaccorsi 1987. Electrostatic Interaction of a Solute with a Continuum. Improved Description of the Cavity and of the Surface Cavity Bound Charge Distribution. Journal of Computational Chemistry 8 778-787. 

Sato and Matsumura (1964), and Bergles and Rohsenow (1964) have proposed the equation for the incipient boiling condition in the case that surface cavities of all sizes are available for nucleation. Hino and Ueda (1985) studied incipient boiling of fluorocarbon R-113 in a stainless steel tube of d = 1 mm at mass velocity G = 158—1,600 kg/m s, and inlet subcooling ATsub,m = 7s — Tin ranged from 10-... 

The known structure of the OCP is a snapshot of the presumably dark-state-adapted form of the protein. From the model, it is difficult to imagine how the concealed carotenoid could interact with one of the components of the phycobilisome in order to quench the absorbed energy. However, the surface of the OCP has numerous surface cavities and clefts, as shown in Figure 1.3b, including two... 

Laskowski RA (1995) SURFNET a program for visualizing molecular surfaces, cavities, and intermolecular interactions. J Mol Graphics 13 307-308... 

When the surface is initially singular, the required ledges can be nucleated by the clustering of supersaturated surface vacancies in monolayer surface cavities or... 

Rubber stoppers are also efficient, simple, temporary system closures. Properly drilled, stoppers can support thermometers or funnels. Because new stoppers have no surface cavities or cracks, there is no risk of leaks as with corks. Like corks, stoppers are used to keep things in (or out) of container. Table 1.7 includes a list of rubber stopper sizes. 

The epithelia are a diverse group of tissues, which, with rare exceptions, line all body surfaces, cavities and glands. They consist of one or more layers of cells, separated by a minute quantity of intercellular material. All epithelia are supported by a basement membrane of variable thickness, which separates the epithelium from underlying connective tissues. 

The wetting of surfaces by adhesives can be described by two activities (1) a lateral spreading of the film and (2) a penetration of the fluid adhesive into the surface cavities that are characteristic of the inherent surface roughness. The first activity is controlled by the relative surface energies of the adhesive and substrate as explained above. The second activity is controlled mainly by the viscosity of the adhesive and the time it is in the liquid state. 

Lacunarypolyoxoanion polyoxoanion with a surface cavity formed by removal of one or more addenda... 

Figure 7.1 Examples of automatically identified ligand-binding pockets with inhibitors bound. For pocket detection, a grid-based approach was used (Pocket-Picker). Dots represent surface cavities identified by PocketPicker, colored by buriedness . Solvent-accessible pocket surfaces are indicated by a mesh (left) or as hard surface (right). Darker shading of the grid dots indicates greater buriedness. a) Thrombin active site (PDB identifier 2cf8, 1.3 A resolution with a lactam inhibitor), b) co-crystal structure of Factor Xa (PDB entry lezq, 2.2 A resolution with inhibitor RPR128515). The automatically extracted pocket does not match with the surface-exposed parts of the actual inhibitor binding pocket. (Adapted from ref. 3.)...

Stahl, M., Taroni, C. Schneider, G. (2000). Mapping of protein surface cavities and prediction of enzyme class by a self-organizing neural network. Protein Eng 13(2), 83-8. 

Results obtained in [80,82] show that the influence of slight surface roughness on the frequency shift cannot be explained in terms of the mass of liquid trapped by surface cavities, as proposed in [76,77]. This statement can be illustrated by consideration of the sinusoidal roughness profile. The mass of the liquid trapped by sinusoidal grooves does not depend on the slope of the roughness, h/l, and is equal to S h, where S is the area of the crystal. However, Eq. 33 demonstrates that the roughness-induced frequency shift does increases with increasing slope. 

Crystallization. We measured the density of initially amorphous PET films following exposures to methylene chloride at unit activity, thereby obtaining crystallization kinetics. The density gradient technique was used (18) with carbon tetrachloride/n-heptane mixtures as the immersion media. To avoid spurious readings, efforts were made to remove residual solvent from the crystallized samples and to prevent the entrapment of air in surface cavities during the density... 

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