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Self-Assembly of Alcohols Adsorbed on Graphene by Zangi, Ronen

“…Self-assembly in two dimensions (2D) can generate structures with no counterparts in three dimensions (3D); therefore, apart from its technological…”
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Driving Force for Hydrophobic Interaction at Different Length Scales by Zangi, Ronen

“…We study by molecular dynamics simulations the driving force for the hydrophobic interaction between graphene sheets of different sizes down to the atomic…”
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Refinement of the OPLSAA Force-Field for Liquid Alcohols by Zangi, Ronen

“…We employ the popular all-atom optimized potential for liquid simulations, OPLSAA, force-field to model 17 different alcohols in the liquid state. Using the…”
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Strings-to-Rings Transition and Antiparallel Dipole Alignment in Two-Dimensional Methanols by Zangi, Ronen, Roccatano, Danilo

“…Structural order emerging in the liquid state necessitates a critical degree of anisotropy of the molecules. For example, liquid crystals and Langmuir…”
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Effect of Ions on the Hydrophobic Interaction between Two Plates by Zangi, Ronen, Hagen, Morten, Berne, B. J

“…We use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the solvent mediated attraction and drying between two nanoscale hydrophobic surfaces in aqueous salt…”
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Physisorption of Hydroxide Ions from Aqueous Solution to a Hydrophobic Surface by Zangi, Ronen, Engberts, Jan B. F. N

“…We present results from detailed molecular dynamics simulations revealing a counterintuitive spontaneous physical adsorption of hydroxide ions at a…”
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Breakdown of Langmuir Adsorption Isotherm in Small Closed Systems by Zangi, Ronen

“…For more than a century, monolayer adsorptions in which adsorbate molecules and adsorbing sites behave ideally have been successfully described by Langmuir’s…”
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Multimerizations, Aggregation, and Transfer Reactions of Small Numbers of Molecules by Zangi, Ronen

“…Chemical equilibria of multimerizations in systems with small numbers of particles exhibit a behavior seemingly at odds with that observed macroscopically. In…”
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Can Salting-In/Salting-Out Ions be Classified as Chaotropes/Kosmotropes? by Zangi, Ronen

“…Attempts to understand the Hofmeister Series at the molecular level has yielded numerous hypotheses, many of which refer to the way different salts modify the…”
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Water Structuring and Hydroxide Ion Binding at the Interface between Water and Hydrophobic Walls of Varying Rigidity and van der Waals Interactions by Vácha, Robert, Zangi, Ronen, Engberts, Jan B. F. N, Jungwirth, Pavel

“…The interfacial behavior of hydroxide ions has been investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous KOH solutions between hydrophobic…”
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Aggregation and Cooperative Effects in the Aldol Reactions of Lithium Enolates by Larrañaga, Olatz, de Cózar, Abel, Bickelhaupt, F. Matthias, Zangi, Ronen, Cossío, Fernando P.

“…Density functional theory and Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations have been carried out for model aldol reactions involving aggregates of lithium…”
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Are Buckyballs Hydrophobic? by Zangi, Ronen

“…Buckyballs exhibit two seemingly opposing characters. On one hand, they are known to be insoluble in water with all potential chemical properties of being…”
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Transport routes of metalloids into and out of the cell: A review of the current knowledge by Zangi, Ronen, Filella, Montserrat

“…Except for their extra- and intra-cellular interfaces, cell membranes are hydrophobic and inhibit the transport of hydrophilic molecules. Metalloids in aqueous…”
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Molecular Dynamics Study of the Recognition of Dimethylated CpG Sites by MBD1 Protein by Bianchi, Caterina, Zangi, Ronen

“…The cell is able to regulate which genes to express via chemical marks on the DNA and on the histone proteins. In all vertebrates, the modification on the DNA…”
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Divergence of the long-wavelength collective diffusion coefficient in quasi-one- and quasi-two-dimensional colloidal suspensions by Lin, Binhua, Cui, Bianxiao, Xu, Xinliang, Zangi, Ronen, Diamant, Haim, Rice, Stuart A

“…We report the results of experimental studies of the short-time-long-wavelength behavior of collective particle displacements in quasi-one-dimensional (q1D)…”
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Adsorption mechanism of an antimicrobial peptide on carbonaceous surfaces: A molecular dynamics study by Roccatano, Danilo, Sarukhanyan, Edita, Zangi, Ronen

“…Peptides are versatile molecules with applications spanning from biotechnology to nanomedicine. They exhibit a good capability to unbundle carbon nanotubes…”
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Base-Flipping Propensities of Unmethylated, Hemimethylated, and Fully Methylated CpG Sites by Bianchi, Caterina, Zangi, Ronen

“…Methylation of C5 of cytosines at CpG dinucleotide sites of the DNA is one of the most important factors regulating the expression of genes. The interactions…”
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Urea’s Action on Hydrophobic Interactions by Zangi, Ronen, Zhou, Ruhong, Berne, B. J

“…For more than a century, urea has been commonly used as an agent for denaturing proteins. However, the mechanism behind its denaturing power is still not well…”
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How to Distinguish Methyl-Cytosine from Cytosine with High Fidelity by Bianchi, Caterina, Zangi, Ronen

“…Methylation of cytosines in the DNA is central to the epigenetic code. The patterns along the DNA formed by these chemical marks instruct the cell which…”
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Dual base-flipping of cytosines in a CpG dinucleotide sequence by Bianchi, Caterina, Zangi, Ronen

“…Simultaneous flipped-out conformation of two neighboring bases on opposite strands of DNAs has been observed in several X-ray structures. It has also been…”
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