Rational design of dna hydrogels based on molecular dynamics of polymers

Y Li, R Chen, B Zhou, Y Dong, D Liu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, DNA has emerged as a fascinating building material to engineer hydrogel
due to its excellent programmability, which has gained considerable attention in biomedical …

Modeling hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials with multiparticle collision dynamics

MP Howard, A Nikoubashman, JC Palmer - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) is a flexible and robust mesoscale computational
technique for simulating solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions in soft materials. Here …

Scaling perspective on dynamics of nanoparticles in polymers: length-and time-scale dependent nanoparticle–polymer coupling

T Ge - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The motion of nanoparticles in a polymer matrix is dictated by the intricate coupling of the
nanoparticles and surrounding polymers. Various length-and time-scale dependent features …

Transport of probe particles in a polymer network: effects of probe size, network rigidity and probe–polymer interaction

P Kumar, L Theeyancheri, S Chaki, R Chakrabarti - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Fundamental understanding of the effect of microscopic parameters on the dynamics of
probe particles in different complex environments has wide implications. Examples include …

Nanoparticle assembly modulated by polymer chain conformation in composite materials

S Chen, E Olson, S Jiang, X Yong - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mixing nanoparticles into a strategically selected polymer matrix yields nanocomposites with
well-controlled microstructures and unique properties and functions. The modulation of …

Mitigating density fluctuations in particle-based active nematic simulations

T Kozhukhov, B Loewe, TN Shendruk - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding active matter has led to new perspectives on biophysics and non-equilibrium
dynamics. However, the development of numerical tools for simulating active fluids capable …

Filament rigidity vies with mesh size in determining anomalous diffusion in cytoskeleton

SJ Anderson, C Matsuda, J Garamella… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The diffusion of microscopic particles through the cell, important to processes such as viral
infection, gene delivery, and vesicle transport, is largely controlled by the complex …

Determining the mesh size of polymer solutions via the pore size distribution

V Sorichetti, V Hugouvieux, W Kob - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
In order to determine in polymeric systems the geometrical mesh size ξ, we simulate a
solution of coarse-grained polymers with densities ranging from the dilute to the …

pH response of sequence-controlled polyampholyte brushes

X Yuan, HW Hatch, JC Conrad, AB Marciel, JC Palmer - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We use molecular simulation to investigate the pH response of sequence-controlled
polyampholyte brushes (PABs) with polymer chains consisting of alternating blocks of …

Dynamics of Filamentous Viruses in Polyelectrolyte Solutions

F Safi Samghabadi, AH Slim, MW Smith… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The structure and dynamics of polyelectrolytes differ from those of neutral polymers. How
these differences affect the transport of anisotropic particles remains incompletely …