A
hydrophobic surface is a material or object that repels or resists water. It doesn't allow water to stick to it and instead causes the water to form drops that easily roll off the surface.
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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.
Wetting maps are a new concept
for hydrophobic surface characterization and open a window for investigating structure - property relationships in surface wetting.
Nanoparticles are ubiquitous in industrial applications ranging from drug delivery and biomedical diagnostics to
developing hydrophobic surfaces, lubricant additives and enhanced oil recovery solutions in petroleum fields.
Whereas a hydrophilic surface allows droplets to spread across it at a small contact angle, a water -
repelling hydrophobic surface will force droplets to bead up and form a larger angle.
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.
In addition these studies allow us to obtain molecular level understanding of interactions of biomolecules with hydrophilic and
hydrophobic surfaces in living systems.
Csm1 presents a
conserved hydrophobic surface patch that binds two kinetochore proteins: Dsn1, a subunit of the outer - kinetochore MIND / Mis12 complex, and Mif2 / CENP - C.
When a drop of liquid lands on
a hydrophobic surface, the fluid's momentum spreads it into a flat pancake.
By comparing
the hydrophobic surface and nanotextured surface, the group discovered that enhanced water droplet bouncing was created by the combined impact of the Leidenfrost levitation and the nonwetting Cassie state.
The process is similar to how water vapor condenses on
a hydrophobic surface.
As a general technique, the nanotweezers are applicable to a wide range of metal, semiconductor, polymer and dielectric nanostructures with charged or
hydrophobic surfaces.
A hydrophobic surface occupies the entire flat surface area of the plate except for the spots.
Liquid Armour coatings bond to surfaces at a molecular level, filling in any nano - pores and creating a permanent bond and
hydrophobic surface that is impervious to contamination.
By applying a voltage, the wetting properties of
a hydrophobic surface can be modified and the surface becomes increasingly hydrophilic (wettable).
When a voltage is applied, the wetting properties of
a hydrophobic surface can be modified and the surface becomes increasingly more hydrophilic (more wettable).
In our earlier works involving water droplets coated with hydrocarbon chains (12C, dodecanoic acid) we found that these particles prefer an inverted micelle structure with an aqueous core and
a hydrophobic surface.