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We have been given this description on a slide from class:
I don't understand the "freezing" part, what's frozen? It's in reference to the formation of self-assembly of simple micelles, do they form at freezing temperatures? I honestly have no clue.
Thanks for any help trying to understand this.
The hydrophobic effect is believed to bean entropic effect caused by the energy cost of disrupting many hydrogen bonds by a non-polar molecule, hence disrupting the quasi-ordered water structure,and the freezing of water molecules around the non-polar molecule in a frozen structured watercage. This structure is known as a
clathrate cage.
I don't understand the "freezing" part, what's frozen? It's in reference to the formation of self-assembly of simple micelles, do they form at freezing temperatures? I honestly have no clue.
Thanks for any help trying to understand this.