Yu Bao, Duo Xu, Lu Qian, Li Zhao, Zhong-yuan Lu and Shuxun Cui
Nanoscale, 2017,9, 3382-3385
DOI:
10.1039/C7NR00198C,
Communication
Comparative studies of single molecule force spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations indicate that natural cellulose is more hydrophobic than amylose at the single-chain level, implying that the hydrophobicities of these polymeric isomers are regulated by only one parameter in the chains, the linkage between the sugar rings.