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We present a systematic coarse-graining (CG) strategy for many particle molecular systems based on cluster expansion techniques. We construct a hierarchy of coarse-grained Hamiltonians with interaction potentials consisting of two, three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Anastasios Tsourtis , Vagelis Harmandaris , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics enables the study of biological processes at temporal and spatial scales that would be intractable at an atomistic resolution. However, accurately learning a CG force field remains a challenge. In this…

We have proposed an efficient parameterization method for a recent variant of the Gay-Berne potential for dissimilar and biaxial particles and demonstrated it for a set of small organic molecules. Compared to the previously proposed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Babadi , R. Everaers , M. R. Ejtehadi

Continuing our study on ($CO_{2}$ + $O_{2}$) mixtures, this work reports new experimental($p$, $\rho$, $T$) data for two oxygen-rich mixtures with mole fractions $x$($O_{2}$) = (0.50 and 0.75) mol/mol, in the temperature range $T$ =…

A challenging topic in materials engineering is the development of numerical models that can accurately predict material properties with atomistic accuracy, matching the scale and level of detail achieved by experiments. In this regard,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-31 Francesco Maria Bellussi , Matteo Ricci , Matteo Fasano , Otello Maria Roscioni

This article explores the hysteretic behavior and the damping features of sheared granular media using discrete element method (DEM) simulations. We consider polydisperse non-cohesive frictional spherical particles, enclosed in a container…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 A. Faulconnier , S. Job , J. Brocail , N. Peyret , J. -L. Dion

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-23 Soumya Mondal , Subhanu Halder , Debarchan Basu , Sandeep Kumar , Tarak Karmakar

Compared to top-down coarse-grained (CG) models, bottom-up approaches are capable of offering higher structural fidelity. This fidelity results from the tight link to a higher-resolution reference, making the CG model chemically specific.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kiran H. Kanekal , Joseph F. Rudzinski , Tristan Bereau

The development of coarse-grained (CG) molecular models typically requires a time-consuming iterative tuning of parameters in order to have the approximated CG models behaving correctly and consistently with, e.g., available…

A symmetrical binary, A+B Lennard-Jones mixture is studied by a combination of semi-grandcanonical Monte Carlo (SGMC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD) methods near a liquid-liquid critical temperature $T_c$. Choosing equal chemical potentials…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Subir K. Das , Juergen Horbach , Kurt Binder , Michael E. Fisher , Jan V. Sengers

Coarse-grained (CG) models are simplified representations of soft matter systems that are commonly employed to overcome size and time limitations in computational studies. Many approaches have been developed to construct and parametrise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-27 Piero Luchi , Roberto Menichetti , Gianluca Lattanzi , Raffaello Potestio

This work presents a novel framework governing the development of an efficient, accurate, and transferable coarse-grained (CG) model of a polyether material. The proposed framework combines the two fundamentally different classical…

The aim of this work is the description of the chain formation phenomena observed in colloidal suspensions of superparamagnetic nanoparticles under high magnetic fields. We propose a new methodology based on an on-the-fly Coarse-Grain (CG)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-03-28 Jordi S. Andreu , Carles Calero , Juan Camacho , Jordi Faraudo

The properties of polymer liquids on hard and soft substrates are investigated by molecular dynamics simulation of a coarse-grained bead-spring model and dynamic single-chain-in-mean-field (SCMF) simulations of a soft, coarse-grained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Léonforte , J. Servantie , C. Pastorino , M. Müller

A mesoscopic coarse-grain model for computationally-efficient simulations of biomembranes is presented. It combines molecular dynamics simulations for the lipids, modeled as elastic chains of beads, with multiparticle collision dynamics for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Mu-Jie Huang , Raymond Kapral , Alexander S. Mikhailov , Hsuan-Yi Chen

In recent years, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as a pivotal tool for understanding the structure, dynamics, and phase behavior in charged soft matter systems. To explore phenomena across greater length and time scales in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Benjamin Bobin Ye , Shensheng Chen , Zhen-Gang Wang

Applying an excess entropy scaling formalism to the coarse-grained (CG) dynamics of liquids, we discovered that missing rotational motions during the CG process are responsible for artificially accelerated CG dynamics. In the context of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Jaehyeok Jin , Gregory A. Voth

We propose a new multi-scale molecular dynamics simulation method which can achieve high accuracy and high sampling efficiency simultaneously without aforehand knowledge of the coarse grained (CG) potential and test it for a biomolecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-08-05 Wenfei Li , Shoji Takada

Coarse-grained (CG) models facilitate an efficient exploration of complex systems by reducing the unnecessary degrees of freedom of the fine-grained (FG) system while recapitulating major structural correlations. Unlike structural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

A versatile and transferable coarse-grained (CG) model was developed to investigate the self-assembly of two ubiquitous methacrylate-based copolymers: poly(ethylene oxide-b-methylmethacrylate) (PEO-b-PMMA) and poly(ethylene…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-29 Gerardo Campos-Villalobos , Flor R. Siperstein , Alessandro Patti