Smart responsive polymers: Fundamentals and design principles

D Mukherji, CM Marques… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we summarize recent theoretical and computational developments in the field
of smart responsive materials, together with complementary experimental data. A material is …

Research progress of the ion activity coefficient of polyelectrolytes: A review

A Zhang, X Yang, F Yang, C Zhang, Q Zhang, G Duan… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polyelectrolyte has wide applications in biomedicine, agriculture and soft robotics. However,
it is among one of the least understood physical systems because of the complex interplay of …

Molecular view into the cyclodextrin cavity: Structure and hydration

AA Sandilya, U Natarajan, MH Priya - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
We find, through atomistic molecular dynamics simulation of native cyclodextrins (CDs) in
water, that although the outer surface of a CD appears like a truncated cone, the inner cavity …

Understanding and modeling polymers: The challenge of multiple scales

F Schmid - ACS Polymers Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

Unraveling the influence of osmolytes on water hydrogen-bond network: From local structure to graph theory analysis

S Sundar, AA Sandilya, MH Priya - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water structure in aqueous osmolyte solutions, deduced from the slight alteration in the
water–water radial distribution function, the decrease in water–water hydrogen bonding, and …

From adaptive resolution to molecular dynamics of open systems

R Cortes-Huerto, M Praprotnik, K Kremer… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
We provide an overview of the Adaptive Resolution Simulation method (AdResS) based on
discussing its basic principles and presenting its current numerical and theoretical …

Atomistic model of an oxide film in contact with a liquid metal coolant: defects concentrations and chemical potentials of dissolved Fe–O

NA Fominykh, VP Nikolskiy, VV Stegailov - Computational Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The paper considers a prototype atomistic model of an oxide film with a wüstite structure in
contact with a liquid metal coolant containing dissolved iron and oxygen. On the basis of …

Computational methods and theory for ion channel research

C Guardiani, F Cecconi, L Chiodo, G Cottone… - … in physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Ion channels are fundamental biological devices that act as gates in order to ensure
selective ion transport across cellular membranes; their operation constitutes the molecular …

Fluctuations, finite-size effects and the thermodynamic limit in computer simulations: Revisiting the spatial block analysis method

M Heidari, K Kremer, R Potestio, R Cortes-Huerto - Entropy, 2018 - mdpi.com
The spatial block analysis (SBA) method has been introduced to efficiently extrapolate
thermodynamic quantities from finite-size computer simulations of a large variety of physical …

Bridge functions of classical one-component plasmas

F Lucco Castello, P Tolias - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
In a recent paper, Lucco Castello et al.[arXiv: 2107.03537] performed systematic extractions
of classical one-component plasma bridge functions from molecular dynamics simulations …