On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
Surfactin is an amphiphilic molecule, like many soaps and detergents
are (thats how water can dissolve oils):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiphilic
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this what you want:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactin#Detergent_effect
>
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Ulysses1994XF04 <bensics@comcast.net> wrote:
>> So I've been toying with the idea of building a home lab as a hobby for a
>> while now. I have the idea of culturing bacteria and fungus on soil,
>> compost, food-waste and so on harvesting them for vitamins and nutrients for
>> my plants and their membrane phospholipids to make soaps and cleaning
>> agents; you can make soap by mixing fatty acids with strong bases like NaOH.
>> You can make your own NaOH at home just by electrolyzing salt water (outside
>> of course, since poisonous HCl and Cl2 gas is evolved)
>>
>> You can break up cells by flash freezing them in acetone or isopropyl mixed
>> with dry ice (the poor-man's liquid nitrogen) and grinding them up. You'll
>> have a slurry of cell components when it evaporates. You can also make a
>> centrifuge just by attaching a plastic disc with holes for microfuge tubes
>> onto a power drill.
>>
>> The thing is, how would I separate out all of the bacterial and fungal
>> chemical components? How would I isolate the phospholipds? And how would I
>> get them to discharge their phosphate groups and fatty acids (or would that
>> happen on contact with NaOH automatically?)
>>
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