Mineral and Protein-Bound Water and Latching Action Control Mechanical Behavior at Protein-Mineral Interfaces in Biological Nanocomposites

Table 3

Values of interaction energies between different pairs of constituents of aragonite-water-GS domain.

Interaction pair	Electrostatic energy (pN-Å)	van der Waals energy (pN- Å)
Aragonite—(A-BW)	−17×10^4	−1×10^4
Aragonite—(P-BW)	−8×10^4	−0.85×10^4
Aragonite—GS	−0.60×10^4	−0.125×10^4
GS—(A-BW)	−0.20×10^4	−0.03×10^4
GS—(P-BW)	−1.20×10^4	−0.10×10^4
(P-BW)—(A-BW)	(−0.50to0.50)×10^4	−0.20×10^4