electrostatic interaction

collocation in English

meaningsofelectrostaticandinteraction

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electrostatic
adjective
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/iˌlek.trəʊˈstæt.ɪk/us
/iˌlek.troʊˈstæt̬.ɪk/
relating to or caused by electricity that does not move in a current but is attracted to the surface of ...
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interaction
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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In this model, an initialelectrostaticinteractionbetween the peptide and the membrane causes bilayer disruption.
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Electrostaticinteractionof myristoylated proteins with membranes : simple physics, complicated biology.
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There has been considerable interest in the dynamics of gases and plasmas containing dust grains or highly charged aerosols, including collective effects and strongelectrostaticinteractionbetween the charged particles.
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The conventional way to do this is to take only the leading term of theelectrostaticinteraction(the dipole-dipole interaction) between the donor and the acceptor molecules into account.
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This seems in part to reflect the need to offset unfavourableelectrostaticinteractionbetween the phosphate backbones of the third strand and the duplex purine strand.
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The exogenous dehydration enhances theelectrostaticinteractionbetween the amide and carbonyl groups by de-shielding their partial charges.
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Some of the major driving forces behind protein adsorption include: surface energy, intermolecular forces, hydrophobicity, and ionic orelectrostaticinteraction.
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However, the hydrophobic interaction is relatively weak when compared to theelectrostaticinteraction, thus, the antimicrobial peptides will preferentially interact with bacterial membranes.
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If the electrons were no longer being shared, then the oxygen-carbon bond would be anelectrostaticinteraction.
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Multipoles could account for attraction between molecules having permanent multipole moments that participate inelectrostaticinteraction.
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This exogenous dehydration enhances theelectrostaticinteractionbetween the amide and carbonyl groups by de-shielding their partial charges.
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Thermal motion of a nucleus can result in fluctuatingelectrostaticinteractionenergies.
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If one of the molecules is neutral and freely rotating, the totalelectrostaticinteractionenergy becomes zero.
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When carrier concentration is high, this type of scattering reflects theelectrostaticinteractionbetween charge carriers.
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C and most likely involved a directelectrostaticinteractionwith negatively charged phospholipids.
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The energy of its state is mainly determined by theelectrostaticinteractionof the (negative) electron with the (positive) nucleus.
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In liquid water, the importance of electrostatic interactions essentially dictates the magnitude of the solvation free energy of charged species.
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Entropy plays a larger role in surface salt bridges where residues that normally have the ability to move are constricted by theirelectrostaticinteractionand hydrogen bonding.
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The issue is further convoluted by different treatments of long-rang electrostatic interactions, but overall recent energy functions have similar performance.
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