Perspective on the Martini model

SJ Marrink, DP Tieleman - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The Martini model, a coarse-grained force field for biomolecular simulations, has found a
broad range of applications since its release a decade ago. Based on a building block …

Fullerenes in liquid media: an unsettling intrusion into the solution chemistry

NO Mchedlov-Petrossyan - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
The compound C60 was successively predicted, 1, 2 revealed, 3 and prepared in
macroscopic quantities 4 within a 20 year period from 1970 to 1990. This molecule repeats …

The Martini coarse-grained force field

X Periole, SJ Marrink - Biomolecular simulations: Methods and protocols, 2013 - Springer
The Martini force field is a coarse-grained force field suited for molecular dynamics
simulations of biomolecular systems. The force field has been parameterized in a systematic …

On Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Models for C60 Fullerene

L Monticelli - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2012 - ACS Publications
Many atomistic and coarse-grained simulations of fullerene and fullerene derivatives are
reported in the literature, but validation of both atomistic and coarse-grained models has …

Computer simulation studies of self-assembling macromolecules

W Shinoda, R DeVane, ML Klein - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Coarse-grained (CG) molecular models are now widely used to understand the structure
and functionality of macromolecular self-assembling systems. In the last few years …

Molecular dynamics simulations predict the pathways via which pristine fullerenes penetrate bacterial membranes

PC Hsu, D Jefferies, S Khalid - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
Carbon fullerenes are emerging as effective devices for different biomedical applications,
including the transportation of nanosized drugs and extraction of harmful oxidants and …

Systematic methods for structurally consistent coarse-grained models

WG Noid - Biomolecular Simulations: Methods and Protocols, 2013 - Springer
This chapter provides a primer on theories for coarse-grained (CG) modeling and, in
particular, reviews several systematic methods for determining effective potentials for CG …

Quasi-continuous melting of model polymer monolayers prompts reinterpretation of polymer melting

R Zhang, WS Fall, KW Hall, GA Gehring, X Zeng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Condensed matter textbooks teach us that melting cannot be continuous and indeed
experience, including with polymers and other long-chain compounds, tells us that it is a …

Derivation of coarse grained models for multiscale simulation of liquid crystalline phase transitions

B Mukherjee, L Delle Site, K Kremer… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present a systematic derivation of a coarse grained (CG) model for molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations of a liquid crystalline (LC) compound containing an azobenzene mesogen …

Membrane perturbation by carbon nanotube insertion: pathways to internalization

M Lelimousin, MSP Sansom - Small, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can penetrate the membranes of cells, offering prospects for
nanomedicine but problems for nanotoxicity. Molecular simulations are used to provide a …