Hydrophobic interactions describe the natural tendency of non-polar molecules to avoid contact with water, a phenomenon fundamental to processes from protein folding to synthetic material design.

Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood proteins. The studies discovered that favorable nanoparticle-protein ...

(Nanowerk News) Hybrid nanostructures between biomolecules and inorganic nanomaterials constitute a largely unexplored field of research, with the potential for novel applications in bioimaging, ...