ON THE MECHANISM OF “HYDROPHOBIC” INTERACTIONS

C.J. van Oss Departments of Microbiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA; Departments of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA

R.J. Good Departments of Chemical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214, USA

Abstract

It is shown that the interfacial attraction between low-energy bodies immersed in aqueous media, known as “hydrophobic” interaction, can be quantitatively accounted for by, mainly, the hydrogen-bonding energy of cohesion of water, plus, to a very minor extent, a van der Waals-Lifshitz attraction between the Immersed law-energy bodies.

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