micelle

The soap does this because it acts as bridge between the water and what is being cleaned away, by binding them and wrapping them into those micelle structures.

If a micelle was a petal, the assembly was the flower.

By introducing a cobalt complex into the core and a rhodium complex into the outer shell, the micelle can catalyse two reactions to transform alkynes into chiral alcohols.

When the green blinks off and the red blinks on, the micelle glows red.

"The concept of the micelle may be new for the electrolyte, but it's actually very common for our daily life," Qi said.