Talk:Micelle

message: can someone add milk to the article. the fat globules in milk are contained in micelles structured by k-casein molecule. those micelles are also responsible for the white color (because of emulsion light dispersion).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.250.197.190 (talk) 21:57, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Milk

message: I had this page on my watchlist, and some recent edits seem to have messed it up. I'm not sure what the correct version of this page is, but I'm concerned about the recent edits. --DannyWilde 08:05, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Attention needed

message: The aggregation of amphiphatic molecules actually increases the entropy of the surrounding water molecules. Water molecules build hydrogen bonds to other polar molecules. If an amphiphatic or hydrophobic molecule is immersed in water, water molecules next to the concerned molecule have a reduced number of possible partners for hydrogen bonding - and their order is increased (="small entropy"). In order to increase entropy ("disorder") of the water molecules, amphiphatic or hydrophic molecules aggregate which actually decreases the surface/volume ratio. The ordering of water molecules around the hydrophic molecule or the hydrophobic part of the amphiphatic molecule is called clathrate structure or cage. That's why dispersed oil droplets in water will always form a big oil drop. The dispersed oil droplets refers to high order (of water molecules) and the big drop refers to small order of water molecules.
See Alberts: "Molecular Biology of the Cell"
* The hydrophobic effect is not necessarily entropic; it can be enthalpic. This depends on the temperature. See "Proteins" by Creighton. Biophys 21:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Micelles increases entropy 

message: This article says that the plural is micellae, then uses micelles throughout! Jeff Knaggs 08:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  plural form 

message: Anyone what to add some info on admicelles?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.197.37 (talk) 22:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Second the motion. Google Scholar returns over 2000 hits for admicelle and over 3000 for hemimicelle. Neither word occurs in Wikipedia. [And I thought Wikipedia was my friend :-( .] There seems to be enough notability to at least mention these two concepts on the Micelle page. And give illustrations like the ones in the infobox — better than any verbal definition! --  Solo Owl   14:57, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  admicelles 

message: I'm somewhat sympathetic to exotic phenomenon, *IF* there's some reasonable basis, so I followed the Willard Water link to a 1980 "60 Minutes" transcript, and read...complete crap.
I am not going to try to delete this from the article, since some fabulist will probably defend it, and I don't care enough to wage that battle, but I really do think that that pseudo-science is *entirely* inappropriate on this page.  to the author. charcoal water is at least proven to accept extra nutrients for plants due to the friggin charcoal you meathead boom thats science. Body PH is crap science though if your reading this and thinking to drink it just don't. It will at the very least remove nutrients from your body.
-you could use it to extract nutrients from a plant and then cook this stuff off with some ethanol  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.38.114.148 (talk) 06:28, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willard Water mention and ref is over the top 

message: The introduction to the article says the correct pronunciation is /maɪˈsiːl/ ("my seal"). I am an undergraduate biochemistry student, and frequently work with micelles similar structures, and I have never heard this before; all of my professors pronounce the word as /maɪˈsɛl/ ("my sell"). I will leave in the current version, but I am also adding this one. mj_sklar (talk) 16:04, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See my comment above for a dictionary reference. If no one can cite a dictionary that says My Seal, I will delete it in a few months. --  Solo Owl   15:00, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Its pronounced my sell.Chhe (talk) 23:47, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The following dictionary lists it with the correct pronunciation (mi sel'). Namely, The Random House College Dictionary Revised Edition 1975,  on page 843.Chhe (talk) 00:13, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Is it worth linking to Thermodynamics_of_micellization#Surfactant_packing_parameter ?  131.111.203.169 (talk) 22:33, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Packing Parameter 

message: The intro needs more qualification.  Micelles are about more instances than soapy water, such as in polymer chemistry or biological phenomena.  The polymer type is cited in the quote of the IUPAC definition, but the intro is all about detergents and excludes all other forms. Richard J Kinch (talk) 09:16, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro excludes comprehensive meaning of "micelle" 

message: * https://www.google.com/search?q=nanomicelle  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4104:1E4C:48EA:D10C:BC6:FCEC (talk) 09:49, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''make page'': [[nanomicelle]] 

message: The IUPAC definition does not match the version I can find "Surfactants  in solution are often association colloids, that is, they tend to form aggregates of colloidal  dimensions, which exist in equilibrium with the molecules or ions from which they are formed. Such aggregates are termed micelles." (https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/M03889).  
I would add this definition seems somewhat vague.
Where does the cited IUPAC definition actually originate? 213.121.92.171 (talk) 10:32, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  IUPAC definition