Bridging the gap between atomistic and coarse-grained models of polymers: Status and perspectives

J Baschnagel, K Binder, P Doruker, AA Gusev… - Viscoelasticity, atomistic …, 2000 - Springer
Recent developments that increase the time and distance scales accessible in the
simulations of specific polymers are reviewed. Several different techniques are similar in that …

Data-driven design of polymer-based biomaterials: high-throughput simulation, experimentation, and machine learning

RA Patel, MA Webb - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers, with the capacity to tunably alter properties and response based on manipulation
of their chemical characteristics, are attractive components in biomaterials. Nevertheless …

Polymer scaling laws of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins quantified with single-molecule spectroscopy

H Hofmann, A Soranno, A Borgia… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The dimensions of unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins are highly dependent on
their amino acid composition and solution conditions, especially salt and denaturant …

Detailed molecular structure of a vinyl polymer glass

DN Theodorou, UW Suter - Macromolecules, 1985 - ACS Publications
A method is developed for the detailed atomistic modeling of well-relaxed amorphous glassy
polymers. Atactic polypropylene at-40 C is used as an example. The model system is a cube …

Decoupling of size and shape fluctuations in heteropolymeric sequences reconciles discrepancies in SAXS vs. FRET measurements

G Fuertes, N Banterle, KM Ruff… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Unfolded states of proteins and native states of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)
populate heterogeneous conformational ensembles in solution. The average sizes of these …

Simulation of asphaltene aggregation through molecular dynamics: Insights and limitations

TF Headen, ES Boek, G Jackson, TS Totton… - Energy & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report classical atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of four structurally diverse
model asphaltenes, a model resin, and their respective mixtures in toluene or heptane under …

Restructuring the crystalline cellulose hydrogen bond network enhances its depolymerization rate

SPS Chundawat, G Bellesia… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Conversion of lignocellulose to biofuels is partly inefficient due to the deleterious impact of
cellulose crystallinity on enzymatic saccharification. We demonstrate how the synergistic …

[LIBRO][B] Engineering applications of noncommutative harmonic analysis: with emphasis on rotation and motion groups

GS Chirikjian, AB Kyatkin - 2000 - taylorfrancis.com
The classical Fourier transform is one of the most widely used mathematical tools in
engineering. However, few engineers know that extensions of harmonic analysis to …

Determining the Gaussian curvature modulus of lipid membranes in simulations

M Hu, JJ Briguglio, M Deserno - Biophysical journal, 2012 - cell.com
The Gaussian curvature modulus κ¯ of lipid bilayers likely contributes more than 100
kcal/mol to every cellular fission or fusion event. This huge impact on membrane remodeling …

A colloidal viewpoint on the sausage catastrophe and the finite sphere packing problem

S Marín-Aguilar, F Camerin, S van der Ham… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized
spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectured …