Definition of "hydrophobicity" [hydrophobicity]

• The condition of being hydrophobic (noun)
• The degree to which a substance is hydrophobic (noun)

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• "And in fact you can program the self-assembly of things, so he starts chocolate dipping edges, changing the hydrophobicity and the hydrophylicity."
• "Both approaches are already working in the lab, and the primary challenges tend to involve integrating materials that have very different properties in terms of hydrophobicity, heat dissipation, etc."
• "Courtney HS, Ofek I, Penfound T, Nizet V, Pence MA, et al. (2009) Relationship between expression of the family of M proteins and lipoteichoic acid to hydrophobicity and biofilm formation in Streptococcus pyogenes."