- An
amphiphile (from the Gr**** αμφις amphis, both, and φιλíα philia, love, friendship), or amphipath, is a
chemical compound possessing both hydrophilic...
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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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Micelles consist of
aggregated amphiphiles, and in a
micellar solution these are in
equilibrium with free,
unaggregated amphiphiles.
Micellar solutions form...
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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...
- 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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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...
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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...
- 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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vesicles from
amphiphiles that
might have
existed in the
prebiotic world have so far been
limited to
systems of one or two
types of
amphiphiles. A
lipid bilayer...
- as hydrophobes.
Amphiphiles are
molecules that have both
hydrophobic and
hydrophilic domains.
Detergents are
composed of
amphiphiles that
allow hydrophobic...
