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In this work we describe a set of Coarse-grained (CG) tools that allow to simulate the uptake of the nanoparticles (NPs) coated with proteins by a lipid bilayer. We describe a CG model to calculate the adsorption energies and the most…
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…
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide detailed insight into atomic-scale mechanisms but are inherently restricted to small spatio-temporal scales. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) techniques allow simulations of much larger…
The prediction of the equation of state and the phase behavior of simple fluids (noble gases, carbon dioxide, benzene, methane, short alkane chains) and their mixtures by Monte Carlo computer simulation and analytic approximations based on…
Condense phase molecular systems organize in wide range of distinct molecular configurations, including amorphous melt and glass as well as crystals often exhibiting polymorphism, that originate from their intricate intra- and…
A temperature (T)-dependent coarse-grained (CG) Hamiltonian of polyethylene glycol/oxide (PEG/PEO) in aqueous solution is reported to be used in implicit-solvent material models in a wide temperature (i.e., solvent quality) range. The…
Coarse-graining is a molecular modeling technique in which an atomistic system is represented in a simplified fashion that retains the most significant system features that contribute to a target output, while removing the degrees of…
We present a coarse-grained model for linear polymers with a tunable number of effective atoms (blobs) per chain interacting by intra- and inter-molecular potentials obtained at zero density. We show how this model is able to accurately…
Coarse-graining (CG) accelerates molecular simulations of protein dynamics by simulating sets of atoms as singular beads. Backmapping is the opposite operation of bringing lost atomistic details back from the CG representation. While…
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…
Coarse-graining (CG) is a systematic reduction of the number of degrees of freedom (DOF) used to describe a system of interest. CG can be thought of as a projection on coarse-grained DOF and is therefore dependent on the functions used to…
Coarse graining techniques play an essential role in accelerating molecular simulations of systems with large length and time scales. Theoretically grounded bottom-up models are appealing due to their thermodynamic consistency with the…
The atomic-scale response of inhomogeneous fluids at interfaces and surrounding solute particles plays a critical role in governing chemical, electrochemical and biological processes at such interfaces. Classical molecular dynamics…
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…
We focus on finding a coarse grained description able to reproduce the thermodynamic behavior of a molecular system by using mesoparticles representing several molecules. Interactions between mesoparticles are modelled by an interparticle…
We discuss the reliability of integral-equation methods based on several commonly used closure relations in determining the phase diagram of coarse-grained models of soft-matter systems characterized by mutually interacting soft and…
The properties of constrained fluids have increasingly gained relevance for applications ranging from materials to biology. In this work, we propose a multiscale model using twin neural networks to investigate the properties of a fluid…
Molecular simulations have assumed a paramount role in the fields of chemistry, biology, and material sciences, being able to capture the intricate dynamic properties of systems. Within this realm, coarse-grained (CG) techniques have…
We study swelling and structural properties of ionic microgel suspensions within a comprehensive coarse-grained model that combines the polymeric and colloidal natures of microgels as permeable, compressible, charged spheres governed by…
To evaluate shear viscosity of ethylene glycol oligomers (EGO)/water binary mixture by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) simulations, we proposed the self-diffusion-coefficient-based parameterization of non-bonded…