This serves as the perfect glue for attaching the oil - loving molecules, which are deposited in a second step; they hold onto the metal oxide layer with one end and reach out to
grab oil molecules with the other.
One end
grabs an oil molecule, the other, a water molecule.
Not exact matches
We already have a library of
molecules that can
grab oil, but the problem is how to get them into a useful structure and bind them there permanently.