Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes and liposomes, with
the aim to attain mechanistic understanding, result in a synergy that makes possible the …

In this review we describe the state-of-the-art of computer simulations studies of lipid
membranes. We focus on collective lipid–lipid and lipid–protein interactions that trigger …

We develop a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model to simulate the dynamics of
multicomponent vesicles. The model accounts for bending stiffness, spontaneous curvature …

To alter and adjust the shape of the plasma membrane, cells harness various mechanisms
of curvature generation. Many of these curvature generation mechanisms rely on the …

Nanoparticle transport across cell membrane plays a crucial role in the development of drug
delivery systems as well as in the toxicity response induced by nanoparticles. As hydrophilic …

The bending energy of the lipid membrane is central to biological processes involving
vesicles, such as endocytosis and exocytosis. To illustrate the role of bending energy in …

The process of osmosis, a fundamental phenomenon in life, drives water through a
semipermeable membrane in response to a solute concentration gradient across this …

Recent developments in lipid membrane models for simulations are reviewed. To reduce
computational costs, various coarse-grained molecular models have been proposed …

We develop and investigate numerically a thermodynamically consistent model of two-
dimensional multicomponent vesicles in an incompressible viscous fluid. The model is …

The recently developed PACE force field was further parametrized so that it can be applied
to the studies of membrane systems. Parameters for the interactions between united-atom …