Sentences with phrase «more hydrophobic»

This is connected with the fact that more PAH is incorporated into the ciliates» lipid cell membrane, the more hydrophobic the PAHs» says Dorothea Gilbert.

He is also trying to use non-Teflon coatings that are more hydrophobic, like that used on Gore - Tex boots.

The chemical used — fluorodecyl POSS — is more usually used to make surfaces more hydrophobic.

Conducted by Zainab Ngaini and colleagues at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, the study found that when sago waste (consisting primarily of cellulose and lignin) is chemically modified using fatty acid derivatives, the resulting material is more hydrophobic than untreated sago waste, implying that it has less affinity for water and an excellent affinity for oil.

The acidifying bacteria make the casein molecules more hydrophobic, and thus, less soluble.

«From this you could make the testable assumption that making lignin more hydrophobic may lead to plants that are easier to deconstruct for biofuel,» Petridis said.

Not exact matches

The bigger the hydrophobic component is, the more polymers will clump together and dense, hard spheres are formed.

That means they're less hydrophobic and more soluble, with the result that caseins now bind each other much more weakly than they did in cheese.

For example, the material itself is hydrophobic, making it more difficult to pass strands of DNA through them.

When a voltage is applied, the wetting properties of a hydrophobic surface can be modified and the surface becomes increasingly more hydrophilic (more wettable).

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.

In order to maintain minimum contact with the hydrophobic fibers the larger the droplets become the more they move away from the higher fiber density i.e. away from the body.

The minute water drops collect more fog, growing like weeny snowballs until they are heavy enough to roll down the mounds into waxy, hydrophobic (water - repelling) channels.

They hope to modify the material and make it hydrophobic, more durable.

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.

Of course, the downside to glass on the back panel is that it is a fingerprint magnet, and because it is not coated in a hydrophobic layer like that front, the smudges appear more severe.