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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hydrophobic molecules (or hydrophobes) repel bodies of water and, owing to the fact that hydrophobes are non-polar, they attract other neutral molecules and non-polar solvents. Natural hydrophobes ...

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 ...

A hydrophobic surface ... such fluctuations are "peculiar to water and are not observed with nonpolar fluids or with a polar fluid such as ethanol." To determine whether bubbles of dissolved ...

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 ...