Simulations comparing aluminum oxide models with differing amounts of corrugation demonstrate the significance of hydroxyl ...

Hydrogen bonds are at the very core of life as we know it, and now for the first time ever scientists have managed to visualize these transient molecular associations. This technique can be used to ...

Open an introductory chemistry textbook. What is a covalent bond? A covalent bond occurs when atoms share electrons in a molecule. What is a hydrogen bond? A hydrogen bond is an electrostatic ...

The origins of the hydrophobic effect are widely thought to lie in structural changes of the water molecules surrounding a nonpolar solute. The spatial distribution functions of the water molecules ...

Proteins are made of amino acid chains, or polypeptides. Amino acids have a basic backbone made of an amino group and a carboxyl group, and differ in their side-chains. These polypeptide chains of ...