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Coarse-grained (CG) models provide an effective route to reducing the complexity of molecular simulations (MD), but conventional approaches depend heavily on long all-atom MD trajectories to adequately sample configurational space. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Maximilian Stupp , P. S. Koutsourelakis

Soft condensed matter structures often challenge us with complex many-body phenomena governed by collective modes spanning wide spatial and temporal domains. In order to successfully tackle such problems mesoscopic coarse-grained (CG)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-12 Vlad P Sokhan , Michael A Seaton , Ilian T Todorov

Developing effective coarse grained (CG) approach is a promising way for studying dynamics on large size networks. In the present work, we have proposed a strength-based CG (\sCG) method to study critical phenomena of the Potts model on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-15 Chuansheng Shen , Hanshuang Chen , Zhonghuai Hou , Houwen Xin

The sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant is widely used in various applications, such as household products (e.g., shampoos, toothpaste, detergents, and cleaning products) and food manufacturing (e.g., emulsifiers). To investigate its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-16 Luís H. Carnevale , Gabriela Niechwiadowicz , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Increasing the efficiency of materials design and discovery remains a significant challenge, especially given the prohibitively large size of chemical compound space. The use of a chemically transferable coarse-grained model enables…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kiran H. Kanekal , Tristan Bereau

Coarse-graining (CG) of molecular simulations simplifies the particle representation by grouping selected atoms into pseudo-beads and drastically accelerates simulation. However, such CG procedure induces information losses, which makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Wujie Wang , Minkai Xu , Chen Cai , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Tess Smidt , Yusu Wang , Jian Tang , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

We consider a coarse-grained (CG) model with pairwise interactions, suitable to describe low-density solutions of star-branched polymers of functionality $f$. Each macromolecule is represented by a CG molecule with $(f+1)$ interaction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-02 Roberto Menichetti , Andrea Pelissetto , Ferdinando Randisi

Coarse-grained (CG) force field methods for molecular systems are a crucial tool to simulate large biological macromolecules and are therefore essential for characterisations of biomolecular systems. While state-of-the-art deep learning…

We present a coarse-grained C$\alpha$-based protein model that can be used to simulate structured, intrinsically disordered and partially disordered proteins. We use a Go-like potential for the structured parts and two different variants of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Łukasz Mioduszewski , Jakub Bednarz , Mateusz Chwastyk , Marek Cieplak

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

A coarse-grained simulation model eliminates microscopic degrees of freedom and represents a polymer by a simplified structure. A priori, two classes of coarse-grained models may be distinguished: those which are designed for a specific…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Baschnagel , J. P. Wittmer , H. Meyer

Molecular simulations provide an effective route for investigating morphology evolution and structure-property relationship in polymer-clay nanocomposites (PCNCs) incorporating layered silicates like montmorillonite (MMT), an important…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-27 Parvez Khana , Ankit Patidara , Gaurav Goel

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

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

MARTINI is a popular coarse-grained force-field that is mainly used in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. It is based on the ``Lego'' approach where intermolecular interactions between coarse-grained beads representing chemical units of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Luis H. Carnevale , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Peptoids (N-substituted glycines) are a class of sequence-defined synthetic peptidomimetic polymers with applications including drug delivery, catalysis, and biomimicry. Classical molecular simulations have been used to predict and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-11 Alex Berlaga , Kaylyn Torkelson , Aniruddha Seal , Jim Pfaendtner , Andrew L. Ferguson

Many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) offers a significant speed-up in the simulation of various systems, including soft matter, in comparison with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on Lennard-Jones nteractions, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-09 Natalia Kramarz , Luís H. Carnevale , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

We construct a one-bead-per-residue coarse-grained dynamical model to describe intrinsically disordered proteins at significantly longer timescales than in the all-atom models. In this model, inter-residue contacts form and disappear during…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-23 Łukasz Mioduszewski , Marek Cieplak

Due to the wide range of timescales that are present in macromolecular systems, hierarchical multiscale strategies are necessary for their computational study. Coarse-graining (CG) allows to establish a link between different system…

Motivated by the deficiencies of the previous MARTINI models of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), we present a new model featuring a high degree of transferability. The model is parametrized on (a) a set of 8 free energies of transfer of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Fabian Grunewald , Giulia Rossi , Alex H. de Vries , Siewert J. Marrink , Luca Monticelli