Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Hofmeister series (HS), ion specific effect, or lyotropic sequence acts as a pivotal part in a
number of biological and physicochemical phenomena, eg, changing the solubility of …

Ions differ in their ability to salt out proteins from solution as expressed in the lyotropic or
Hofmeister series of cations and anions. Since its first formulation in 1888, this series has …

Driving forces for association between oppositely charged biological or synthetic polymers
in aqueous solution have long been identified as electrostatic in origin. This attraction is …

Nature takes advantage of the pervasive presence of water to control many enzymatic
reactions by utilizing the unique properties of water, which in turn help regulating reaction …

Specific ion effects occur everywhere. They occur in bulk solutions and at interfaces
(air/water, oil/water, solid/water, macromolecule/water, etc.). They are even found in …

The process of wound healing is often accompanied by bacterial infection, which is a
serious threat to human health. The abuse of antibiotics in traditional therapy aggravates the …

Circular dichroism (CD) is being increasingly recognised as a valuable technique for
examining the structure of proteins in solution. However, the value of many studies using CD …

Water is a ubiquitous liquid substance in our world and has by all accounts striking
properties that set it aside from other liquids. A monumental collective set of volumes, edited …

The Hofmeister series, first noted in 1888, ranks the relative influence of ions on the physical
behavior of a wide variety of aqueous processes ranging from colloidal assembly to protein …