Hydrophobicity reinterpreted as 'minimisation of the entropy penalty of solvation'

Physics & Astronomy

• hydrophobicity 80%
• alkanes 73%
• solvation 72%
• penalties 69%
• entropy 48%
• optimization 43%
• water 37%
• two dimensional models 10%
• benzene 9%
• methane 8%
• solubility 8%
• room temperature 5%
• molecules 5%
• liquids 5%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Alkanes 100%
• Entropy 79%
• Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions 73%
• Water 44%
• Hate 31%
• Physical Phenomena 13%
• Methane 13%
• Benzene 11%
• Solubility 9%
• Temperature 6%
• Pressure 6%

Chemical Compounds

• Hydrophobicity 56%
• Solvation 56%
• Alkane 56%
• Entropy 54%
• Methane 7%
• Benzene 6%
• Solubility 5%
• Ambient Reaction Temperature 5%
• Liquid 5%
• Time 3%
• Molecule 3%