Michael Stevens, creator of the incredibly popular science YouTube channel Vsauce, enlightens us on why water makes it hard to make an «Earth Sandwich,» and
how hydrophobic materials work.
The team is studying
how hydrophobic organic molecules, commonly present in the atmosphere, change the aerosols» formation, properties, and behavior.
Not exact matches
«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 process is similar to
how water vapor condenses on a
hydrophobic surface.
Researchers suspect the dyes were
hydrophobic and altered
how the ganglioside interacted with the cell membrane.
This illustration shows
how the different effective viscosity of water affects the force required to slide two surfaces separated by a thin layer of water when confined by a hydrophilic material or a
hydrophobic material.
In seeing the clusters, the team determined
how the chemical products created an increasingly
hydrophobic surface that, in turn, pushed the water together and created larger water clusters.
Most surfactants, like soap molecules in bubbles and phospholipids in cellular membranes, have small water - loving (hydrophilic) heads and long fat - loving (
hydrophobic) tails that determine
how they arrange in space.
Another questionable item concerns
how humans were able to deduce the creatures» limitations prior to their rampant depletion (at least if tabloid fodder is any indication)... so the film's resolution feels a bit like M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002) and those
hydrophobic aliens trying to colonize a planet mostly made of water (and speaking of printing techniques,
how Evelyn has a calendar to mark her due date well over a year into isolation also seems suspect).
There's a limit to
how much water the
hydrophobic coating can shed.
Waterproofing will presumably come via a simple
hydrophobic coating inside and outside of the device, but it's not yet clear
how Apple plans to execute the wireless charging feature.