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Biophysics: Water at the nanoscale

Mark S. P. Sansom & Philip C. Biggin1

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You would not expect water to enter a hydrophobic carbon nanotube. But computer simulations show that it can, and studying the process should provide clues about the behaviour of biological pores.

Water continues to surprise us. Intuitively, one would not expect water to enter a narrow hydrophobic pore, such as that formed by a carbon nanotube, because of both the tube's narrowness and its 'oily', water-repellent properties.

  1. Mark S. P. Sansom and Philip C. Biggin are in the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.

Correspondence to: Mark S. P. Sansom e-mail: Email: mark@biop.ox.ac.uk