Hydrophobic/hydrophilic behavior

There is a great interest in these treatments because the hydrophobic/hydrophilic behavior conditions the compatibility with other materials. This is especially important for the development of composites, in which dissimilar materials are employed with the aim of obtaining a product that combines the desired properties of the components. For instance, the incorporation of starch to synthetic polymers renders a biodegradable, water resistant material however, the components must be made compatible by modifying the hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity of one or both of them. Hydrophobic starch has been obtained with a SiCl4 plasma treatment, followed by a reaction with either ethylene diamine or dichlorodimethysilane thus, a hydrophilic material was converted into a hydrophobic one. There are also many... 

Lynden-Bell R M and Rasaiah J C 1997 From hydrophobic to hydrophilic behavior a simulation study of solvation entropy and free energy of simple solutes J. Chem. Phys. 107 1981... 

The choice of solid carriers spans a wide spectrum (Table 1) from materials most suitable for research purposes (sintered glass beads, laterite stone deposited on a gramophone disk) to industrial materials (pumice, activated carbon, etc.). Key properties that affect the performance of the carrier are porosity (from impervious to controlled-size pores), composition (from ceramics to activated carbon), and hydrophilic behavior. It is difficult to perform a direct comparison of different carriers. Colonization and biofilm growth depend strongly on the nature of bacteria and on their intrinsic propensity to adhere on hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic surfaces. 

Wetting properties. A clean carbon surface is hydrophobic. Surface oxides provide sites of adsorption for water and other polar compounds. The more surface oxides there are, the more distinct is the hydrophilic behavior of the carbon. This was confirmed by Healey et al. (39) for graphitized carbon black, and by Kraus (40) and A. V. Kiselev and his group (41) for carbon black. Beebe and Dell (42) measured the sulfur dioxide adsorption on channel black and found an increase after oxidation at 600°. Further evidence for selective adsorption of polar compounds was provided by Gasser and Kipling (43). 

Dial-in properties solubility, hydrophobicity, hydrophilicity, viscosity, cast-ability, thermal behavior, mechanical, optical, electrical characteristics, etc. 

Cauvel, A., Brunei, D., and Di Renzo, F., Hydrophobic and hydrophilic behavior of micelle-templated mesoporous silica, Langmuir, 13, 2113, 1997. 

FIGURE 2 Local hydrophobicity on the surface of different sweeteners. Light grey represents hydrophilic behavior, whereas dark grey represents hydrophobic behavior. 

Titanium, as an example for the transport model verification, was chosen because of the extensive experimental data available on LLX and membrane separation [1,2,74—76] and of its extraction double-maximum acidity dependence phenomenon [74]. This behavior was observed for most extractant families basic (anion exchangers), neutral (complexants), and acidic (cation exchangers). So, it is possible to study both counter- and cotransport mechanisms at pH > 0.5 and [H] > 7 mol/kg feed solution acidities, respectively, using neutral (hydrophobic, hydrophilic) and ion-exchange membranes. 

Since the hydrophobic-hydrophilic balance of amine-cured resins was so sensitive to alkyl substituents on the hydantoin ring, it is not surprising that it was also sensitive to the hydrocarbon moieties of the amine curatives. The range of behavior depended on the resin substituents. For example, the already hydrophobic ethyl amyl substituted Resin Ilk showed moderate but significant increases in hydrophobicity when cured with cycloaliphatic, highly branched aliphatic, or formulated aromatic amines. See Table V. 

Functional properties of some enzymatically modified and EPM-treated products of milk proteins [136] were determined as follows. An enzymatically prehydrolyzed commercial milk protein concentrate (SR) without further hydrolysis, and casein hydrolyzed by alcalase, a-chymotrypsin, and papain, respectively, were used as substrates in the EPM reaction. The concentration of the hydrolysates was 20% w/ v in the EPM reactions. A methionine methyl ester hydrochloride/ substrate ratio of 1 5 was used for incorporating this amino acid. After incubation, the products with methionine incorporation were simultaneously dialyzed for 2 days through a cellophane membrane against distilled water. The nondialyzable fractions and the EPM products without amino acid enrichment were freeze-dried. Covalent methionine incorporation in the EPM products with amino acid enrichment was verified by exopeptidase hydrolysis of the protein chains. The functional properties of the different EPM products are summarized in Table 1. An important functional property of proteins and/or peptide mixtures is their emulsifying behavior. This is highly influenced by the molecular structure, the position and ratio of hydrophobic-hydrophilic amino acids. Emulsion activity was found to be low (34.0) for casein, and the values determined for enzyme hydrolyzed and modified products were in general even lower. The papain hydrolysate, sample H3, showed here a different behavior as well this was the one of the sample series that had the highest EAI value (43.0). The emulsion stability of the enzymatically modified products displayed tendencies quite opposite to the values of emul-... 

Total internal reflection intrinsic fluorescence (TIRIF) spectroscopy and molecular graphics have been applied to study the adsorption behavior of two lysozymes on a set of three model surfaces. A recently devised TIRIF quantitation scheme was used to determine adsorption isotherms of both hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL) and human milk lysozyme on the three model surfaces. This preliminary study suggests that the adsorption properties of the two lysozymes are significantly different, and that further comparative studies of the two lysozymes might prove to be beneficial in understanding how protein structure might influence adsorption properties. Molecular graphics was used to rationalize the adsorption results from TIRIF in terms of the proteins surface hydrophobic/hydrophillic character. 

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