Understanding specific ion effects and the Hofmeister series

KP Gregory, GR Elliott, H Robertson, A Kumar… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Specific ion effects (SIE), encompassing the Hofmeister Series, have been known for more
than 130 years since Hofmeister and Lewith's foundational work. SIEs are ubiquitous and …

A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Zeolite-confined subnanometric PtSn mimicking mortise-and-tenon joinery for catalytic propane dehydrogenation

S Ma, ZP Liu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Heterogeneous catalysts are often composite materials synthesized via several steps of
chemical transformation, and thus the atomic structure in composite is a black-box. Herein …

Structural insights into the mechanism of GTP initiation of microtubule assembly

J Zhou, A Wang, Y Song, N Liu, J Wang, Y Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, the dynamic assembly of microtubules (MT) plays an important role in
numerous cellular processes. The underlying mechanism of GTP triggering MT assembly is …

Different force fields give rise to different amyloid aggregation pathways in molecular dynamics simulations

S Samantray, F Yin, B Kav… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The progress toward understanding the molecular basis of Alzheimers's disease is strongly
connected to elucidating the early aggregation events of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide …

Aptamer truncation strategy assisted by molecular docking and sensitive detection of T-2 toxin using SYBR Green I as a signal amplifier

P Ma, H Ye, H Guo, X Ma, L Yue, Z Wang - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, for the first time, a novel truncation strategy for aptamers' sequences based on
molecular docking was reported for the first time. T-2 toxin and AFB 1 aptamers were …

Dielectric properties of nanoconfined water: A canonical thermopotentiostat approach

F Deißenbeck, C Freysoldt, M Todorova… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We introduce a novel approach to sample the canonical ensemble at constant temperature
and applied electric potential. Our approach can be straightforwardly implemented into any …

Preserving porosity of mesoporous metal–organic frameworks through the introduction of polymer guests

L Peng, S Yang, S Jawahery, SM Moosavi… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
High internal surface areas, an asset that is highly sought after in material design, has
brought metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to the forefront of materials research. In fact, a …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer brushes for friction control: Contributions of molecular simulations

MA Abdelbar, JP Ewen, D Dini, S Angioletti-Uberti - Biointerphases, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When polymer chains are grafted to solid surfaces at sufficiently high density, they form
brushes that can modify the surface properties. In particular, polymer brushes are …

[KÖNYV][B] Molecular simulations: fundamentals and practice

S Alavi - 2020 - books.google.com
Provides hands-on knowledge enabling students of and researchers in chemistry, biology,
and engineering to perform molecular simulations This book introduces the fundamentals of …