Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …

Upon biological self-assembly, the number of accessible translational configurations of
water in the system increases considerably, leading to a large gain in water entropy. It is …

It is experimentally known that the heat-denaturation temperature of a protein is raised by
sugar addition [1]. In earlier work [2], we proposed a measure of the thermal stability of a …

We use Wang-Landau and replica exchange techniques to study the effect of an increasing
stiffness on the formation of secondary structures in protein-like systems. Two possible …

The competition between toroidal and rod-like conformations as possible ground states for
DNA condensation is studied as a function of the stiffness, the length of the DNA, and the …

Taking protein G with 56 residues for a case study, we investigate the mechanism of protein
folding. In addition to its native structure possessing α-helix and β-sheet contents of 27 …

We have recently shown that protein folding is driven by the water-entropy gain. When the α-
helix or β-sheet is formed, the excluded volumes generated by the backbone and side …

We use a micro-canonical Wang–Landau technique to study the equilibrium properties of a
single flexible homopolymer where consecutive monomers are represented by impenetrable …

It has been recently shown that the coarse-graining of the structures of polypeptide chains
as self-avoiding tubes can provide an effective representation of the conformational space of …

Two separate regimes exist for the aspect ratio of DNA. A low aspect regime where DNA will
twist further under strain and a high aspect regime where DNA will untwist under strain. The …