Insights into the effect of combustion-generated carbon nanoparticles on biological membranes: A computer simulation study
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The computational investigation of the structural, dynamical and thermodynamic effects of combustion-generated carbon nanoparticles on a lipid bilayer using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of atomistic molecular models is reported. The results have shown that particle shape and structure have significant effects on solvation, mobility, adsorption and permeation behavior of the particles.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2006
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Dipolar ordering in the ripple phases of molecular-scale models of lipid membranes
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The construction of molecular-scale lipid model and use of molecular dynamic simulation to analyze the role of head group dipoles in the formation of the ripple phase is described. The model is able to achieve an out-of-plane membrane corrugation that stabilizes the orientational ordering for the dipoles in the head groups which develop an anti-ferroelectric state.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2008
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Molecular dynamics simulation of Titanium dioxide nanoparticle sintering
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The sintering of TiO(sub 2) nanoparticles using molecular dynamics simulation is studied to find that the sintering of anatase and rutile nanoparticles is very rapid and occurs in a few picoseconds. It is also found that the dipole-dipole interaction between sintering nanoparticles plays a very important role at temperatures away from melting point.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2005
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