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What does adsorption mean?

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Noun
  1. The adhesion of a liquid or gas on the surface of a solid material, forming a thin film on the surface.
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All data points in the adsorption isotherm represent an average of three experiments.
The adsorption of surfactant molecules onto the aggregate surface changes the nature the surface from hydrophilic to hydrophobic.
Acidic lipids enhance the adsorption of positive ions due to their negative charge.
Subsequent adsorption from a less concentrated solution of DOPC and DDM increases the fraction of DOPC in the layer.
A distinction can also be made between monolayer adsorption and multilayer adsorption.
We show that spectroscopy of such chromophores can be done by adsorption to polystyrene microspheres and nanospheres in aqueous suspension.

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