Methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) is a custom methacrylate with a zwitterionic
phosphorylcholine moiety on the side chain. In the past 25 years, MPC has been used as a …

Microbial electrochemical systems in which metabolic electrons in living microbes have
been extracted to or injected from an extracellular electrical circuit have attracted …

Membrane budding and wrapping of particles, such as viruses and nano-particles, play a
key role in intracellular transport and have been studied for a variety of biological and soft …

Monte Carlo simulations using the bond fluctuation method with explicit solvent reveal the
mechanism of enhanced permeability of lipid bilayers induced by the adsorption of …

Using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, we study the passive translocation of
nanoparticles with a size of about 1 nm and with tunable degrees of hydrophobicity through …

As a nonreducing disaccharide, trehalose can be used as a biocompatible cryoprotectant for
solvent-free cell cryopreservation, but the membrane-impermeability limits its cryoprotective …

We review the results of Monte Carlo studies of chosen nonlinear optical effects in host-
guest systems, using methods based on the bond-fluctuation model (BFM) for a polymer …

Unlike the majority of nanomaterials designed for cellular uptake via endocytic pathways,
some of the functional nanoparticles and nanospheres directly enter the cytoplasm without …

Recent experimental studies indicate that polymeric structures with a well-adjusted balance
of amphiphilic parts may translocate through self-assembled phospholipid bilayers and …

We investigate adsorption and passive translocation of random amphiphilic copolymers
interacting with a self-assembled lipid bilayer membrane. By using the bond fluctuation …