Sentences with phrase «either hydrophilic»

The milled seed mucilage is a white fibrous material that is hydrophilic, meaning that its molecular structure causes it to attract and bind to water.

(The report goes by the catchy title: Lipophilic and Hydrophilic Antioxidant Capacities of Common Foods in the United States — those USDA scientists are just a barrel of monkeys.)

Hydrophilic properties allow Chia Seeds increase in size making them great thickeners in soups and also help you stay hydrated during endurance exercise.

• Their hydrophilic capabilities help create a sensation of fullness and they help promote a healthier gastrointestinal system.

And the egg whites provide some more lift, and are also added in part for their drying properties since these batter - style gluten free yeast bread doughs require a near - excess of moisture, as traditional gluten free flour blends are hydrophilic.

Whether you eat chia gel or just the raw seeds, the hydrophilic action of chia seed will keep you full longer than many other seeds.

The whole hydrophobic / hydrophilic thing is quite interesting.

The seeds are hydrophilic, absorbing up to 12 times their weight in liquid when soaked.

Hydrophilic polymer soaks as much water as possible.

Imported from Murano, Italy, the center for the production of Venetian glass, this spectacular necklace showcases the hydrophilic behavior of a cluster of bubbles.

It's hydrophilic treated so the flow of the water and nutrients through the fabric is enough to keep the soil in good shape, even though it's under the barrier.

He continued his work on the purification of amino acids, seeking to overcome the natural aversion to artificial membranes of hydrophilic amino acids.

To these inner structures — which are hydrophilic PAA polymers — the researchers add hairs made from the hydrophobic monomer MAMC.

The model system developed by researchers from the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science is made up of water and block copolymers — thread - like molecules with both a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic component.

One domain is functionized with hydrophilic organic ligands and the other with hydrophobic ones.

If the hydrophilic component is large, only a few molecules will bundle themselves loosely together and their physical behaviour resembles that of threads.

«The variant changes the region from hydrophobic to hydrophilic and destabilize Helix 8.

A special feature of the model colloids made these findings possible: their softness can be tuned very finely over a large area by altering the length ratio between the hydrophilic and hydrophobic components of the molecule threads.

For example, hydrophilic polymers are often used to protect metals from fouling; water molecules accumulate on this polymer layer, which protects the metal against the adhesion of unwanted molecules or organisms.

In water, the polymer threads arrange themselves in a star shape, with the hydrophilic ends pointing outwards, and the hydrophobic pointing inwards.

We report direct determination of the structures and dynamics of interfacial water on a hydrophilic surface with atomic - scale resolution using ultrafast electron crystallography.

A hydrophilic group sticks to water while a hydrophobic group is immersed in oil.

As a result, polar residues on proteins are called hydrophilic, or «water - loving.»

«Our Monte Carlo [statistical] simulations unveil how the kinetic competition between folding and aggregation is resolved by the «good» sequences» built - in protection against aggregation, due to their hydrophobic - hydrophilic pattern,» says Istrail.

The beetles have a combination of hydrophobic hairs that line their legs and hydrophilic claws that grip the surface of water without getting too wet.

They found it was the apparently random positioning of water - loving (hydrophilic) molecules in a protein that prevents water - hating molecules (hydrophobic, which possess the dominant folding force), from binding with other proteins.

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.

Engineers are now mimicking the beetle's back and reproducing similar hydrophobic - hydrophilic surfaces, materials and products at the nanoscale.

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 team's conclusion — that hydrophobic, or water repelling, lignin binds less with hydrophilic, or water attracting, hemicellulose — points researchers toward a promising way to engineer better plants for biofuel.

Nanoparticles are usually either hydrophobic — water - repelling, like oil — or hydrophilic, water - like, said Feng Wang, a post-doctoral researcher who shared first author - duties with Luo.

A comparison of the simulations showed weaker interaction between hemicellulose and the modified lignin than with wild lignin, suggesting that hydrophobic lignin interacts less with hydrophilic hemicellulose.

The outside of the doughnut, being hydrophilic, makes the molecule as a whole partially soluble in water.

Instead of a hydrophilic alcohol group (an oxygen - hydrogen molecule bound to a hydrogen - saturated carbon atom), the final lignin polymer contained a hydrophobic aldehyde group (a carbon atom double - bonded to an oxygen atom).

When water drops onto a hydrophilic surface like a windshield, on the other hand, it spreads out and runs in rivulets.

MTMS - uncoated cellulose aerogels are hydrophilic, thus they can also absorb and retain huge volumes of polar fluids such as water and alcohol.

The C - terminal end of the cytoplasmic tail of gp41, measuring 105 amino acid residues, was tightly associated to the membrane and had three alpha - helixes with portions that were hydrophobic and portions that were hydrophilic.

Since RNA is hydrophilic, or «likes water,» the molecules on the nanodiamond surface swell with excess hydration and weaken the heterogeneous dynamics of the molecules.

According to the report, the silk proteins fold in on themselves and arrange their hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts such that they remain soluble prior to being spun.

Pusch has also co-authored a second paper in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering with Hinton, «3D Printing PDMS Elastomer in a Hydrophilic Support Bath via Freeform Reversible Embedding.»

Some, for example, are hydrophilic (water loving), whereas others are hydrophobic (water fearing).

The monomers are the hydrophilic poly (ethylene glycol), or PEG, which mixes well with water, and the halophilic polysulfabetaine (PSB), which has a preference for salt solution.

«The taste of whisky is primarily linked to so - called amphipathic molecules, which are made up of hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts.

Sun decided to study a fraction of the peptide sequence that gave the glue its adhesive ability by attaching a heterogeneous hydrophilic peptide segment inspired by spider silk proteins.

Researchers at Osaka University overcame these limitations with fluorescent SM analogs by joining several fluorescent chemical compounds (fluorophores) that were highly hydrophilic to the hydrophobic lipid part (mainly acyl chains) of the synthetic molecule.

While silica does not participate directly in the catalysis, the surface molecular composition of the silica grains can influence its effectiveness if the chemical group is predominantly hydrophilic or hydrophobic.

Vapor molecules run off the hydrophobic runways and coalesce into droplets at the hydrophilic nodes.

The researchers found that if the silica tends to have hydrophilic silanol groups on its surface, it attracts water molecules, in effect forming a «soft barrier» of water molecules that reactants would have to overcome to somehow penetrate to proceed with the desired process or reaction.

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.

There are two different types of chemical groups that comprise glass surfaces, he said: silanol (SiOH) groups that are generally hydrophilic (water - loving), or siloxane (SiOHSi) groups that are typically water - repellant.