News tagged with hydrophobic tails

Microcantilevers are masters of measurement

(PhysOrg.com) -- Devices that look like tiny diving boards are a launching platform for research that could improve detergents and advance understanding of disease.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bristly Spheres as Capsules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphiphilic molecules, which have one water-friendly (hydrophilic) end and one water-repellant (hydrophobic) end, spontaneously aggregate in aqueous solutions to make superstructures like ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Creating desirable materials requires salt, but not space

(PhysOrg.com) -- When synthesizing specialized materials for energy-packed batteries, the problem is the template. The pattern for self-assembling the highly desired nanometer-sized spheres falls apart, producing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Metallic molecules to nanotubes: Spread out!

(PhysOrg.com) -- A lab at Rice University has stepped forward with an efficient method to disperse nanotubes in a way that preserves their unique properties -- and adds more.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laser spectroscopy exposes organization of water molecules under model membrane surfaces

The behavior of water molecules as they contact biological substances has long puzzled scientists. The first few layers of interfacial water can display complex arrangements that distinctly influence biochemical ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Water may not run uphill, but it practically flies off new surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice. The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New nanoparticle could improve cancer detection, drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida scientists have developed a new nanoparticle that could improve cancer detection and drug delivery. The particle, called a 'micelle' and made up of a cluster of molecules called aptamers, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

First tri-continuous mesoporous Silica complex structure developed in Singapore

Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) has developed the first tri-continuous mesoporous material using a unique surfactant template. This completely new porous structure previously been predicted ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 05, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly

Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

A New Way to Think About Earth's First Cells

A team of researchers at Harvard University have modeled in the laboratory a primitive cell, or protocell, that is capable of building, copying and containing DNA.

Biology /

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (35) | comments 14

Cellular Construction Methods Emulated

Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be useful ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0


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