Water ordering

All hydrophobic groups are sequestered from water ordered shell of H2O molecules is minimized, and Oba entropy is further increased. 

In the Frank and Evans iceberg model, ice-like structures form around hydrophobic entities, such as methane. In this model, the hydrophobic molecules enhance the local water structure (greater tetrahedral order) compared with pure water. Ordering of the water hydration shell around hydrophobic molecules has been attributed to clathrate-like behavior, in which the water hydration shell is dominated by pentagons compared to bulk liquid water (Franks and Reid, 1973). 

Brandts, 1967 Privalov and Khechinashvili, 1974 Sturtevant, 1977). It is assumed that water ordering increases in the vicinity of nonpolar groups (Kauzmann, 1959). If the order of the water molecules surrounding nonpolar groups decreases faster than that of bulk water as the temperature rises, one will observe the gradual melting of ordered water as the increment of the partial heat capacity of protein in water media. 

Results such as those shown in Fig. 7 have been interpreted as reflecting, in the higher hydration range II, a secondary hydration phase, corresponding perhaps to the B shell of solvent about ions. In this view the water of range II would be a shell of solvent serving to interface the bulk solvent with the water ordered in the monolayer about the native protein surface. This molecular interpretation of the physics of the 0.35 to 0.75 h range conflicts with the heat capacity isotherms (see Section II,A,3), which show that the heat capacity of a native protein is invariant to hydration above about 0.4 h. 

Zn-insulin is like crambin and rubredoxin in that the crystal has a low proportion of water—for insulin 30.6% by weight. These proteins are similar also in having much of the crystal water ordered sufficiently for detection by X-ray diffraction analysis. 

The coefficients Ca and Cr are measures of the strength of water ordering on the surface. 

The unusual thermodynamic properties of nonpolar solutes in aqueous phase were analyzed, by assuming that water molecules exhibit a special ordering around the solute. This water-ordered structure was called the iceberg structure. 

Bindee, H., et al.. Hydration of the dionic lipid dioctadecadienoylphos-phatidylcholine in the lamellar phase. An infrared linear dichroism and X-ray study on headgroup orientation, water ordering, and bilayer dimensions, Biophys. J., 1998, 74, 1908-1923. 

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES colorless or light-yellow solids there are three chemical isomers, the ortho, meta, and para derivatives the ortho and para forms appear industrially most prevalent all forms are solid at room temperature all forms are soluble in benzene and ethanol, but are insoluble in water order of solubility decreases from the ortho to the para form their physical properties are as follows MP (56.2°C, 133°F(ortho) 87.4°C, 189.3°F (meta) 212.7°C, 415°F (para)) BP (332.°C, 630°F (ortho) 365°C, 689°F (meta) 405°C, 761°F (para)) DN/SG (1.10 to 1.23) VD (not applicable) VP (very low at 20°C). 

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Figure 39 Microstructure in the intermediate region microemulsions, as observed by cryo-TEM. (a), (b) 40 wt% water disordered lamellae were aligned during sample preparation note unsmeared particles (arrows), (c), (d) 50 wt% water ordered lamellae are seen. Bubbles in upper right corner of (d) are the result of electron beam damage. Bars = 100 nm. (From Ref. 304.)...

Figure 30.12 A continuum of water ordering mechanisms, from (a) zero charge density on the solute, where first-shell water molecules form hydrogen bonds, to (c) high charge density on an ion, where water s dipole moment orients in the field of the charge.

The first one is based on the water ordered structure around the ethylene oxide chains. As the temperature increases, this highly ordered structure breaks down, due to the unfavorable entropy contribution. 

Sachs JN, Nanda H, Petrache HI, Woolf TB. (2004) Changes in phosphatidylcholine headgroup tilt and water order induced by monovalent salts Molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys J86 3772-3782. 

Different theories have been proposed to explain hydration forces and to derive quantitative equations. Marcelja and Radic assumed that the water molecules in direct contact with the walls are fixed and preferentially oriented [1135]. This preferred orientation is coupled to the adjacent layers of water molecules. Using Landau-de Gennes theory and introducing a water-order correlation length they derived a force per unit area 1... 

The characteristic decay length is the water-order correlation length. For closer approach, fixed orientation as described by Eq. (10.13) leads to a stronger interaction. When the orientation is allowed to adjust, the force per unit area at dose range is reduced (Eq. (10.14)). 

Lima et al. extracted CNs or whiskers from different cellulose sources such as wood, cotton, and animal origins [6]. Nanowhiskers obtained from cotton are typically 8-10 nm long with diameters between 100 and 300 nm. On the other hand, tunicate nanowhiskers are 100 nm to a few microns in length and 10-20 nm in diameter. Above the critical concentration of nanowhiskers in water, ordered nanowhiskers showed liquid crystal properties. 

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