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    In chemistry, an amphiphile (from Greek αμφις (amphis) 'both' and φιλíα (philia) 'love, friendship'), or amphipath, is a chemical compound possessing both...
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    attracted to both water and oily solvents, known as amphiphiles. In a micellar solution, some amphiphiles are clumped together and some are dispersed. Micellar...
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    Lyotropic liquid crystals result when amphiphiles, which are both hydrophobic and hydrophilic, dissolve into a solution that behaves both like a liquid...
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    Peptide amphiphiles (PAs) are peptide-based molecules that self-assemble into supramolecular nanostructures including; spherical micelles, twisted ribbons...
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    by placing a subphase (usually water) in a trough, spreading a given amphiphile over the surface, and then compressing the surface with barriers (see...
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    Other aggregations are also observed and form part of the polymorphism of amphiphile (lipid) behavior. Phase behavior is an area of study within biophysics...
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    Nakari-Setälä T, Penttilä ME (November 2005). "Hydrophobins: the protein-amphiphiles of filamentous fungi". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 29 (5): 877–96. doi:10...
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    includes seven families: the heavy metal efflux (HME), the hydrophobe/amphiphile efflux-1 (gram-negative bacteria), the nodulation factor exporter family...
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  • pressure Peano axioms, a set of axioms for the natural numbers Peptide amphiphile, a type of self-assembling peptide Picoamp (pA), one trillionth of an...
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    of polymers like RNA that store information. Only one or two types of amphiphiles have been studied which might have led to the development of vesicles...
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    as hydrophobes. Amphiphiles are molecules that have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains. Detergents are composed of amphiphiles that allow hydrophobic...
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    oils. Surfactants such as detergents rely heavily on micelle formations. Amphiphile molecules organize into small clusters of micelles with the hydrocarbon...
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    Che J.; Hamley, Ian W. (2013). "Collagen Stimulating Effect of Peptide Amphiphile C16–KTTKS on Human Fibroblasts". Molecular Pharmaceutics. 10 (3): 1063–1069...
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  • environmental science; cell membranes by modelling complex systems with amphiphile compounds; generating new procedures in microfluidics and nanofluidics...
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  • octanol. Like Genapol X-100 and Triton X-100, it is a nonphysiological amphiphile that makes lipid bilayers less "stiff". Octyl glucoside has become one...
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  • bending and elasticity functions of membranes on inter-cell connections. Amphiphile Biological membrane Collodion bag Lipid Lipid polymorphism Lipid rafts...
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    envelope of these viruses is relatively sensitive to desiccation, heat, and amphiphiles such as soap and detergents, therefore these viruses are easier to sterilize...
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    solvent molecules changes the self-assembled structures. At very low amphiphile concentration, the molecules will be dispersed randomly without any ordering...
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    List of boiling and freezing information of solvents Partition coefficient Polarity Hydrophobe Hydrophile Lipophilic Amphiphile Lyonium ion Lyate ion...
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  • prepared using this surfactant with another cationic or water-insoluble amphiphiles such as 1-decanol. Addition of an mixture of equal parts of sodium lauroyl...
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    ISBN 9780669417944. Sorrenti, A.; Illa, O.; Ortuño, R. M. (2013-10-07). "Amphiphiles in aqueous solution: well beyond a soap bubble". Chemical Society Reviews...
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    of the usual DNA genome are called 'ribocells' or 'ribocytes'. When amphiphiles like lipids are placed in water, the hydrophobic tails aggregate to form...
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  • gene's locus within a population Lipid polymorphism, the property of amphiphiles that gives rise to various aggregations of lipids Polymorphic, a wave...
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  • enable them to be carried away by water. African black soap Aleppo soap Amphiphile Antibacterial soap Azul e branco soap Bulnesia sarmientoi Carbolic soap...
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    commonly used as an antibiotic for its capacity as a surfactant. It is an amphiphile capable of withstanding hydrophilic and hydrophobic environments. The...
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    vesicles (protocells) with membranes composed of fatty acids and related amphiphiles. Template-directed RNA synthesis by the copying of RNA templates inside...
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    Calcitonin Amylin AGG01 Aromatic short peptides Biomimetic peptides Peptide amphiphiles Peptide dendrimers B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) – produced in the...
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    List of boiling and freezing information of solvents Partition coefficient Polarity Hydrophobe Hydrophile Lipophilic Amphiphile Lyonium ion Lyate ion...
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  • component. For instance, SDS is a component, along with other chain-length amphiphiles, when produced from coconut oil, and is known as sodium coco sulfate...
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    acids at water|air Decrease surface tension progressively, as with most amphiphiles, e.g., alcohols at water|air Decrease surface tension until certain critical...
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