Micelles

The Caseins The casein family includes four different kinds of proteins that gather together into microscopic family units called micelles. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Experiments at the Institut Laue-Langevin in France revealed that the soap's magnetic properties come from the surfactant's tendency to form clumps of tiny particles called micelles in water. ❋ Unknown (2012)

These occur in milk as clumps known as micelles, held together by a calcium ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if the concentration is increased, the soap molecules begin to aggregate into little clumps called micelles which are composed of a few hundred soap molecules each. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These groupings (technically called micelles) have a negative charge, which makes them repel other groupings of casein and keeps the casein evenly dispersed in the milk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But if the concentration is increased the soap molecules begin to aggregate into little clumps called micelles which are composed of a few hundred soap molecules each. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All this is because the water wants to interact with itself so strongly that the greasy tails make their egress from bulk solution into the nonpolar interiors of self-assemblies ( "micelles"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

These smaller molecules are formed into micelles -- units that can be absorbed into the lymphatic system. ❋ M.S. Carrie Wiatt (2011)

The growth of large multilamellar fatty acid vesicles fed with fatty acid micelles, in a solution where solute permeation across the membranes is slow, results in the transformation of initially spherical vesicles into long thread-like vesicles, a process driven by the transient imbalance between surface area and volume growth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Small unilamellar fatty acid vesicles grow when fed with fatty acid micelles and can be forced to divide by extrusion, but this artificial division process results in significant loss of protocell contents during each division cycle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Soap is a surfactant because it forms water-soluble micelles that trap the otherwise insoluble dirt and oil particles. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Asphalts normally contain between 5 and 25% by weight of asphaltenes and may be regarded as colloids of asphaltene micelles dispersed in maltenes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Enclosure of metabolic “sites” into vesicles and mechanical reproduction of these primitive cells: Again, certain clays catalyze vesicle formation from micelles. ❋ Unknown (2005)

By 1982, complete sequence-specific assignments had been obtained for a small protein, BPTI, and for the polypeptide hormone glucagon bound to lipid micelles. ❋ Unknown (2003)