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Hydrophobes are excluded around small ions. Hydrophobic solutes (gold) insert more readily into the inner solvation shells of large ions than small ions. (orange) Hydrophobe density. (light gray lines) First and second solvation shells (black and gray bars underneath) show the effective size of the ion, from the perspective of external solutes.
