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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

Machine-learned (ML) coarse-grained (CG) models are a promising tool for significantly enhancing the efficiency of molecular simulations by systematically removing degrees of freedom while retaining fidelity to the underlying fine-grained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Patrick G. Sahrmann , Benjamin T. Nebgen , Kipton Barros , Brenden W. Hamilton

One essential goal of constructing coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) models is to accurately predict non-equilibrium processes beyond the atomistic scale. While a CG model can be constructed by projecting the full dynamics onto a set…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Liyao Lyu , Huan Lei

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

In this study, we utilize genetic algorithms to develop a realistic implicit solvent ultra-coarse-grained (PC) membrane model comprising only three interaction sites. The key philosophy of the ultra-CG membrane model SMARTINI3 is its…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-10 Alireza Soleimani , Herre Jelger Risselada

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained models attain performance on par with atomistic molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Abigail Park , Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

A persistent challenge in predictive molecular modeling of thermoset polymers is to capture the effects of chemical composition and degree of crosslinking (DC) on dynamical and mechanical properties with high computational efficiency. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-15 Andrea Giuntoli , Nitin K. Hansoge , Anton van Beek , Zhaoxu Meng , Wei Chen , Sinan Keten

Coarse-grained (CG) models can provide computationally efficient and conceptually simple characterizations of soft matter systems. While generic models probe the underlying physics governing an entire family of free-energy landscapes,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 Joseph F. Rudzinski

To study the cooling behavior and the glass transition of polymer melts in bulk and with free surfaces a coarse-grained weakly semi-flexible polymer model is developed. Based on a standard bead spring model with purely repulsive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-09 Hsiao-Ping Hsu , Kurt Kremer

Coarse-grained (CG) models parameterized using atomistic reference data, i.e., 'bottom up' CG models, have proven useful in the study of biomolecules and other soft matter. However, the construction of highly accurate, low resolution CG…

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

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) is a technique developed as a concurrent multiscale model that couples conventional molecular dynamics (MD) to a more coarse-grained description of the periphery. The coarse-grained regions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert E. Rudd , Jeremy Q. Broughton

We present a novel thermodynamically guided, low-noise, time-scale bridging, and pertinently efficient strategy for the dynamic simulation of microscopic models for complex fluids. The systematic coarse-graining method is exemplified for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-12 Patrick Ilg , Hans Christian Öttinger , Martin Kröger

The success of the Materials Genome Initiative has led to opportunities for data-driven approaches for materials discovery. The recent development of Polymer Genome (PG), which is a machine learning (ML) based data-driven informatics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Manav Ramprasad , Chiho Kim

A coarse-graining strategy, previously developed for polymer solutions, is extended here to mixtures of linear polymers and hard-sphere colloids. In this approach groups of monomers are mapped onto a single pseudoatom (a blob) and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-07 Giuseppe D'Adamo , Andrea Pelissetto , Carlo Pierleoni

Gradient-domain machine learning (GDML) is an accurate and efficient approach to learn a molecular potential and associated force field based on the kernel ridge regression algorithm. Here, we demonstrate its application to learn an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jiang Wang , Stefan Chmiela , Klaus-Robert Müller , Frank Noè , Cecilia Clementi

A coarse-grained model is developed to allow large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a branched polyetherimide derived from two backbone monomers [4,4'-bisphenol A dianhydride (BPADA) and m-phenylenediamine (MPD)], a chain…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-15 Chengyuan Wen , Roy Odle , Shengfeng Cheng

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

Additively manufactured metals exhibit heterogeneous microstructure which dictates their material and failure properties. Experimental microstructural characterization techniques generate a large amount of data that requires expensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Roberto Perera , Davide Guzzetti , Vinamra Agrawal

We implemented a coarse-graining procedure to construct mesoscopic models of complex molecules. The final aim is to obtain better results on properties depending on slow modes of the molecules. Therefore the number of particles considered…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Hendrik Meyer , Oliver Biermann , Roland Faller , Dirk Reith , Florian Mueller-Plathe