Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of
molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the …

Using metadynamics to explore complex free-energy landscapes

G Bussi, A Laio - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Metadynamics is an atomistic simulation technique that allows, within the same framework,
acceleration of rare events and estimation of the free energy of complex molecular systems …

LAMMPS-a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales

AP Thompson, HM Aktulga, R Berger… - Computer Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the classical molecular dynamics simulator LAMMPS was released as an open source
code in 2004, it has become a widely-used tool for particle-based modeling of materials at …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD

JC Phillips, DJ Hardy, JDC Maia, JE Stone… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
NAMD is a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulations of very
large biological objects on CPU-and GPU-based architectures. NAMD offers scalable …

Fast-charging capability of graphite-based lithium-ion batteries enabled by Li3P-based crystalline solid–electrolyte interphase

S Tu, B Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Chen, X Wang, R Zhan… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Li+ desolvation in electrolytes and diffusion at the solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) are two
determining steps that restrict the fast charging of graphite-based lithium-ion batteries. Here …

Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations

Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
The PLUMED consortium unifies developers and contributors to PLUMED, an open-source
library for enhanced-sampling, free-energy calculations and the analysis of molecular …

Exploration of chemical compound, conformer, and reaction space with meta-dynamics simulations based on tight-binding quantum chemical calculations

S Grimme - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2019 - ACS Publications
The semiempirical tight-binding based quantum chemistry method GFN2-xTB is used in the
framework of meta-dynamics (MTD) to globally explore chemical compound, conformer, and …

Efficient metal ion sieving in rectifying subnanochannels enabled by metal–organic frameworks

J Lu, H Zhang, J Hou, X Li, X Hu, Y Hu, CD Easton… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Biological ion channels have remarkable ion selectivity, permeability and rectification
properties, but it is challenging to develop artificial analogues. Here, we report a metal …

Modeling and simulations of polymers: a roadmap

TE Gartner III, A Jayaraman - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular modeling and simulations are invaluable tools for the polymer science and
engineering community. These computational approaches enable predictions and provide …

RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …