Clay minerals could offer a simple, scalable solution for capturing carbon dioxide and fighting climate change.

A group of scientists from Purdue University and Sandia National Laboratories has made a surprising breakthrough in climate ...

They have shown how the nearby presence of polar (water-attracted, or hydrophilic) substances can change the way the nonpolar hydrophobic groups want to stick to each other. Fear of water may seem ...

One of Earth's most common nanomaterials is facilitating breakthroughs in tackling climate change: clay. In a new study, ...

The theory proposes that there are sites along the polypeptide chains where hydrophobic groups initially fold in on themselves, creating small nonpolar (hydrophobic) pockets that are protected ...

The theory proposes that there are sites along the polypeptide chains where hydrophobic groups initially fold in on themselves, creating small nonpolar (hydrophobic) pockets that are protected ...

The hydrophobic interaction drives nonpolar solutes to aggregate in aqueous solution, and hence plays a critical role in many fundamental processes in nature. An important property intrinsic to ...

Somehow, they come together to form a solid. The key to understanding why is the small size and nonpolar (hydrophobic) nature of methane. Because water is very polar, the two substances don't mix ...

Phospholipids are hydrophilic thanks to their polar phosphate group “heads” and hydrophobic thanks to their nonpolar “tails” comprising fatty acid chains. “We found that the GaN architecture of our ...

Oils, by contrast, are nonpolar, and as a result they’re not attracted to the polarity of water molecules. In fact, oils are hydrophobic,or “water fearing.” Instead of being attracted to ...

Mass production of the product has not been started yet, he added. The hydrophobic effect is the observed tendency of nonpolar substances to aggregate in an aqueous solution and exclude water ...