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Teresa Head-Gordon and research team discover special property of water encapsulated in cages

Professor Teresa Head-Gordon along with other researchers from UC Berkeley and Ruhr-University Bochum have investigated why cages can increase the catalytic activity of enclosed molecules. Using terahertz spectroscopy and complex computer simulations, they showed that water encapsulated in a tiny cage has special properties – that are structurally and dynamically distinct from any known phase of water. The water forms a droplet inside the cage that facilitates the encapsulation of a host molecule, i.e. to access the catalytic centre.

Read more about it here.

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