Gas blanket

... Note that the water clathrates that are thought to blanket hydrophobic regions of biomolecules are not as stable as those described ... http://www.btinternet.com/~martin.chaplin/clathrate.html This describes gas hydrates instead of water ordered around biomolecules: http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~kcjanda/Group/gas_hydrate_structure.html ...

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