Long-Range Order and Interactions of Macroscopic Objects in Polar Liquids
Abstract
We develop a phenomenological vector model of polar liquids capable to describe aqueous interactions of macroscopic bodies. It is shown that a strong, long-range and orientationally dependent interaction between macroscopic objects appears as a result of competition between short-range (hydrogen bonding) and the long-range dipole-dipole interactions of the solvent molecules. Spontaneous polarization of molecular dipoles next to a hydrophobic boundaries leads to formation of globally ordered network of hydrogen-bonded molecules with ferroelectric properties. The proposed vector model naturally describes topological excitations on the solute boundaries and can be used to explain the hydrogen bonds networks and order-disorder phase transitions in the hydration water layer.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601129,
title = {Long-Range Order and Interactions of Macroscopic Objects in Polar Liquids},
author = {P. O. Fedichev and L. I. Men'shikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601129},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages, 6 figures