- In chemistry, an
amphiphile (from Gr**** 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 dis****d. Micellar...
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Peptide amphiphiles (PAs) are peptide-based
molecules that self-****emble into
supramolecular nanostructures including;
spherical micelles,
twisted ribbons...
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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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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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pressure Peano axioms, a set of
axioms for the
natural numbers Peptide amphiphile, a type of self-****embling
peptide Picoamp (pA), one
trillionth of an...
- Nakari-Setälä T, Penttilä ME (November 2005). "Hydrophobins: the protein-
amphiphiles of
filamentous fungi". FEMS
Microbiology Reviews. 29 (5): 877–96. doi:10...
- 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...
- 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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Other aggregations are also
observed and form part of the
polymorphism of
amphiphile (lipid) behavior.
Phase behavior is an area of
study within biophysics...
