Is There Software Available to Display Hydration Shells?

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Hydration or solvation shell software is not commonly available as a dedicated tool. However, molecular dynamics simulations can effectively visualize ions or molecules along with their surrounding water molecules forming hydration shells. These simulations provide insights into the solvation process and can be used to analyze the interactions between solutes and solvent molecules.
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Is there dedicated hydration/solvation shell software?
Hi,

Is there Hydration/solvation shell software?
I mean softwares able to show ions/molecules and surrounding water molecules forming hydrations shell?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvation_shell
 
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I don't know of any dedicated software for this, but simple molecular dynamics simulations will probably give you an adequate answer.
 

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