Dewetting and Hydrophobic Interaction in Physical and Biological Systems

Hydrophobicity manifests itself differently oil large and small length scales. This review focuses oil large-length-scale hydrophobicity, particularly oil dewetting at single hydrophobic surfaces and drying in regions bounded oil two or more sides by hydrophobic surfaces. Bale review applicable theories, simulations, and experiments pertaining to large-scale hydrophobicity in Physical and biomolecular systems and clarify some of the critical issues pertaining to this subject. Given space constraints, we cannot review all the significant and interesting work in this active field.