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WSN: Hydration Processes in Biological and Macromolecular Systems
The Royal Society of Chemistry
FARADAY DIVISION
Discussion No: 103
Hydration Processes in Biological and Macromolecular Systems
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
1-3 April 1996
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Professor J Yarwood (Chairman) Professor J Finney
Professor B Belton Professor D Buckingham
Professor H Berendsen Dr T Cosgrove
Professor R Pethig Professor T Atkins
The Interaction of water at organic surfaces or interfaces is of fundamental
and technological interest and importance in chemistry, physics and biology.
The area has therefore attracted a great deal of activity over the last twenty
years. However, progress towards an indepth, molecular interpretation of the
structure and dynamics of interfacial water, consistent with all the data, has
been slow. It therefore seems an appropriate time to initiate a discussion,
based on the most up to date information obtained using a wide variety of
experimental and theoretical approaches. In this way, we hope to enable a
broader view to be taken of the detailed microscopic dynamic and interaction
processes occurring at or close to hydrophobic and/or hydrophilic sites.
The meeting will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists
working with a range of novel experimental, simulation and modelling
techniques, all aimed at a common goal; to understand, at molecular level,
the mutual perturbation at a macromolecule/water interface.
Contributions are invited for consideration by the Organising Committee.
Titles and abstracts of about 300 words should be submitted by 28 April 1995
to: Professor J Yarwood, Materials Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam
University, Pond Street, Sheffield. S1 1WB
Full papers for publication in the Faraday General Discussion 103 volume will
be required by December 1995.