Origin of Entropy Convergence in Hydrophobic Hydration and Protein Folding.
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Shekhar Garde, Gerhard Hummer, Angel E. Garc a, Michael E. Paulaitis, and Lawrence R. Pratt Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545. Center for Molecular and Engineering Thermodynamics, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. (November 22, 1996, LA-UR-96-2773)
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 77 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996