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Multiscale simulations facilitate the efficient exploration of large spatiotemporal scales in chemical and physical systems, yet particle-based simulations become prohibitively expensive at time and length scales beyond the molecular level.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jaehyeok Jin , Yining Han , Gregory A. Voth

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

We propose the first, to our knowledge, coarse-grained modeling strategy for peptides where the effect of changes of the pH can be efficiently described. The idea is based on modeling the effects of the pH value on the main driving…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Marta Enciso , Christof Schuette , Luigi Delle Site

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

The parametrization of coarse-grained (CG) simulation models for molecular systems often aims at reproducing static properties alone. The reduced molecular friction of the CG representation usually results in faster, albeit inconsistent,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Joseph F. Rudzinski , Tristan Bereau

Coarse graining enables the investigation of molecular dynamics for larger systems and at longer timescales than is possible at atomic resolution. However, a coarse graining model must be formulated such that the conclusions we draw from it…

Bottom-up coarse-grained molecular dynamics models are parameterized using complex effective Hamiltonians. These models are typically optimized to approximate high dimensional data from atomistic simulations. In contrast, human validation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Aleksander Evren Paetzold Durumeric , Gregory A. Voth

Polymer properties are inherently multi-scale in nature, where delicate local interaction details play a key role in describing their global conformational behavior. In this context, deriving coarse-grained (CG) multi-scale models for…

The thermodynamic entropy of coarse-grained (CG) models stands as one of the most important properties for quantifying the missing information during the CG process and for establishing transferable (or extendible) CG interactions. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman

A strategy is developed for generating equilibrated high molecular-weight polymer melts described with microscopic detail by sequentially backmapping coarse-grained (CG) configurations. The microscopic test model is generic but retains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-25 Guojie Zhang , Livia A. Moreira , Torsten Stuehn , Kostas Ch. Daoulas , Kurt Kremer

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

Certain sequences of peptoid polymers (synthetic analogs of peptides) assemble into bilayer nanosheets via a nonequilibrium assembly pathway of adsorption, compression, and collapse at an air-water interface. As with other large-scale…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Thomas K. Haxton , Ranjan V. Mannige , Ronald N. Zuckermann , Stephen Whitelam

Machine learning (ML) offers considerable promise for the design of new molecules and materials. In real-world applications, the design problem is often domain-specific, and suffers from insufficient data, particularly labeled data, for ML…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Ming Han , Ge Sun , Juan J. de Pablo

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling simplifies molecular systems by mapping groups of atoms into representative units. However, traditional CG approaches rely on fixed mapping rules, which limit their ability to handle diverse chemical systems and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhixuan Zhong , Linbo Ma , Jian Jiang

Structural and thermodynamic consistency of coarse-graining models across multiple length scales is essential for the predictive role of multi-scale modeling and molecular dynamic simulations that use mesoscale descriptions. Our approach is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-04 J. McCarty , A. J. Clark , J. Copperman , M. G. Guenza

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling enables molecular simulations to reach time and length scales inaccessible to fully atomistic methods. For classical CG models, the choice of mapping, that is, how atoms are grouped into CG sites, is a major…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Franz Görlich , Julija Zavadlav

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

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models have the potential for simulating large molecular complexes beyond what is possible with atomistic molecular dynamics. However, training accurate CG models remains a challenge. A widely used…

Coarse-graining (CG) reduces molecular details to extend the time and length scales of molecular dynamics simulations to microseconds and micrometers. However, the CG approaches have long been limited by the difficulty of constructing both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Kevin V. Bigting , Shubhadeep Nag , Yaxin An

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…

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