Sentences with phrase «spherical micelle»

Vivek Vasantha at A * STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences — together with scientists from across Singapore under the Innovative Marine Antifouling Solutions (IMAS) program — developed a new block copolymer that can self - assemble into spherical micelle structures in which one monomer forms the core and the other forms the outer shell.

After a series of transformations, the organic template forms an array of well - defined spherical micelles several nanometers in diameter.

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After the filaments are injected into the body, the resulting hydrogel network functions as a drug depot that slowly degrades by breaking down into spherical nanomaterials called micelles, which are programmed to travel to specific targets.

This showed them that the micelles — or any spherical inclusions — are compressed like springs as the steps close around them.