Sentences with phrase «as hydrophobic»

The device is loaded with a redesigned speaker, acting as a hydrophobic pump.

This two - pack of tempered glass screen protectors includes all the features you'd expect, such as hydrophobic and oleophobic coatings to keep your screen clean.

Both cysteine and methionine are nonpolar as well as hydrophobic, with methionine being extremely hydrophobic as far as amino acids go.

Molecular dynamics simulations of the solvation water around biomolecules shows a retardation of the H - bond dynamics for hydrophilic as well as hydrophobic protein surface areas.

Not exact matches

As I demonstrated last Friday, Winters — by partial quotation, distortion, and almost hydrophobic vituperation — defamed the archbishop of Philadelphia.

The «juice», known as capsaicin, in the peppers is hydrophobic.

The protein structure of the hard keratins such as wool is predominately hydrophobic amino acids coupled with a high lipid percentage lending a waterproof characteristic to the wool fiber.

Your hydrophobic results will draw jealous stares as you drive down the street.

It is super hydrophobic, which means water won't know what hit it as it is swept right off.

Cellulose acetate loses strength as it absorbs water, so the skin is waterproofed by adding a protein found in paper wasp saliva that makes their nests hydrophobic.

Just as oil balls up in water, hydrophobic regions of a protein clump together for protection, and the parts of the protein that don't mind water fold over them.

Scientists funded by the NSF are studying a Namibian beetle, whose backside is a patchwork of hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas that help to collect and disperse water as needed.

We see this in hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions that propel lipid molecules in water to corral together to form the two - layer membranes that serve as the coatings surrounding cells.

The researchers were puzzled by a nonlinear drop in surface water diffusivity — as measured by the Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization apparatus in the Han lab — as the chemical composition of the silica surface moved from hydrophobic to hydrophilic.

As a general technique, the nanotweezers are applicable to a wide range of metal, semiconductor, polymer and dielectric nanostructures with charged or hydrophobic surfaces.

This experiment works better if the needle has a hydrophobic — or water repellent — coating such as Teflon (like the surface of nonstick pans).

On the other hand, water isn't as attracted to hydrophobic materials, making the molecules easier to move and producing lower viscosity.

In contrast, AO1CB [7] is rather unconventional as it forms vesicles in water despite its short hydrophobic allyloxy tail.

As compared to allotopic protein expression, an RNA - based approach has the theoretical advantage of abrogating the difficulties encountered thus far with the mitochondrial import of large and hydrophobic proteins.

In fact, they often contain hydrophobic agents but are not necessarily hydrophobic as a whole.]

Here, we use resurrected Precambrian proteins as scaffolds for protein engineering and demonstrate that a new active site can be generated through a single hydrophobic - to - ionizable amino acid replacement that generates a partially buried group with perturbed physico - chemical properties.

«Deficient neuron - microglia signaling results in impaired functional brain connectivity and social behavior» Y. Zhan, R.C. Paolicelli, F. Sforazzini, L. Weinhard, G. Bolasco, F. Pagani, A. L. Vyssotski, A. Bifone, A. Gozzi, D. Ragozzino, C.T. Gross Nature Neuroscience 17 (3), 400-4006 (2014) «USPIO - loaded Red Blood Cells as a biomimetic MR contrast agent: a relaxometric study» A. Boni, D. Ceratti, A. Antonelli, C. Sfara, M. Magnani, E. Manuali, S. Salamida, A. Gozzi, and A. Bifone Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging 9, 229 - 236 (2014) «Distributed BOLD and CBV - weighted resting - state networks in the mouse brain» F. Sforazzini, A.J. Schwarz, A. Galbusera, A. Bifone, and A. Gozzi NeuroImage 87, 403 - 415 (2014) «Antimicrobial peptides design by evolutionary multiobject optimization» G. Maccari, M. Di Luca, R. Nifosì, F. Caldarelli, G. Signore, C. Boccardi, and A. Bifone PloS Computational Biology 9 (9): e1003212 (2013) «Differential effect of orexin - 1 and crf - 1 antagonism on stress circuits: a fMRI study in the rat with the pharmacological stressor yohimbine» A. Gozzi, S: Lepore, E: Merlo Pich, and A. Bifone Neuropsychopharmacology 38 (11): 2120 - 2130 (2013) «Water dispersal and functionalization of hydrophobic iron oxide nanoparticles with lipid - modified poly (amidoamine) dendrimers» A. Boni, L. Albertazzi, C. Innocenti, M. Gemmi, and A. Bifone.

Protein - protein complexes show good complementarity in surface shape and polarity and are stabilized largely by weak interactions, such as burial of hydrophobic surface, hydrogen bonds, and van der Waals forces.

Im and his colleagues from the University of Kansas, University of Maryland and Stockholm University investigate the differences and similarities of the membrane properties such as area per lipid, hydrophobic thickness, and acyl chain order.

Albumin normally constitutes about 60 % of human plasma protein and plays an important role in regulating blood volume by maintaining the oncoosmotic pressure of blood needed to avoid edema, and by serving as the carrier for hydrophobic molecules, including lipid soluble hormones, bile salts, unconjugated bilirubin, free fatty acids (apoprotein), calcium, ions (transferrin), and some drugs (e.g., warfarin, phenobutazone, clofibrate & phenytoin).

Lecithin is an emulsifier (used to keep fats / oils dispersed and in suspension): phospholipid molecules (such as lecithin) contain hydrophobic and hydrophilic elements; the hydrophobic portion has an affinity for fats and oils, and the hydrophilic portion has an affinity for water.

1 can of pure coconut milk (rich moisturize - hydrates, conditions and de-frizzes hair) 1 ripe avocado (natural source of protein - chlorine robs the hair of protein) 2 tablespoons of pure honey (conditions and adds sheen) 2 tablespoons of olive oil (hydrophobic oil that acts as a barrier to chlorine and salt water)

That's the idea of the finish applied - «Wolfs Body Wrap», described as a «Nano technology Hydrophobic Sealant».

Cats aren't hydrophobic by nature, in fact some like getting wet, but for some reason felines tend not to drink as much water as they should.

Terraces, hugelkultur, floodbreak (aka windbreak) plantings, diversion channels, maintaining wild wetlands as sinks, building creekbed pathways, using orchards as buffers, impregnating poorer - quality soils with hydrophobic biochar, progressively alternating such features with dykes laid out to fractionally draw overflows and slow flow, proper programs of dredging and berming, and on and on, there is no reason a flood plain could not be made so robust by industrious (as opposed to industrial), intelligent, conscientious (as opposed to council consultant) planning as to be impervious to a 1,000 year flood, and oh by the way, make the land more profitably productive and lucratively livable, and more resistant to drought, wildfire, invasive species and extinction of native species too.

Freshly emitted soot is an example of a hydrophobic aerosol type; after chemical transformation in the atmosphere (e.g. oxidation of its surface rendering it more hygroscopic; condensation of more hydrophilic species onto the particle) it will gradually pick up water as well.

The treated fabric is much more hydrophilic than the fabric by itself (which only absorbs about 18 % of its own weight), and yet when the temperature gets warmer, the fabric becomes hydrophobic and releases all of the absorbed water (as pure water) without any other further action.

Now as far as sweat - proofing goes these don't officially have an IPX rating, but they do have a double hydrophobic coating to prevent sweat from eating away at them.

You can wear them to your workout sessions without any worry, as the earbuds come with sweat proof, hydrophobic nano coating.

A hydrophobic glass coating, Mershield repels water from the shower enclosure and makes for easy cleaning as it prevents any build - up.