We studied the water density profile close to spherical and planar hydrophobic objects using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For normal pressure and room temperature, the depletion layer thickness of a planar substrate is similar to2.5 Angstrom. Even for quite large spherical solutes with a radius of R = 18 Angstrom, the depletion layer thickness is reduced by 30%, which shows that substrate curvature and roughness is an experimentally important factor. Rising temperature leads to a substantial increase of the depletion layer thickness. The compressibility of the depletion layer is found to be surprisingly small and only similar to5 times higher than that of bulk water. A high electrostatic surface potential of 0.5 V is found, which presumably plays an important role in the presence of charged solutes, since it can promote adsorption into the interfacial layer.
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