Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Perspective on the Martini model

SJ Marrink, DP Tieleman - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The Martini model, a coarse-grained force field for biomolecular simulations, has found a
broad range of applications since its release a decade ago. Based on a building block …

Effect of size and surface charge of gold nanoparticles on their skin permeability: a molecular dynamics study

R Gupta, B Rai - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular level understanding of permeation of nanoparticles through human skin
establishes the basis for development of novel transdermal drug delivery systems and …

The martini model in materials science

R Alessandri, F Grünewald, SJ Marrink - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field initially developed with biomolecular
simulations in mind, has found an increasing number of applications in the field of soft …

Atomistic simulations of coating of silver nanoparticles with poly (vinylpyrrolidone) oligomers: Effect of oligomer chain length

A Kyrychenko, OM Korsun, II Gubin… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) possess unique physicochemical properties, which are
different from those of matter of the same chemical composition on a larger scale. These …

Penetration of gold nanoparticles through human skin: unraveling its mechanisms at the molecular scale

R Gupta, B Rai - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent experimental studies suggest that nanosized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are able to
penetrate into the deeper layer (epidermis and dermis) of rat and human skin. However, the …

Understanding and designing the gold–bio interface: Insights from simulations

P Charchar, AJ Christofferson, N Todorova, I Yarovsky - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are an integral part of many exciting and novel biomedical
applications, sparking the urgent need for a thorough understanding of the physicochemical …

PEGylation on mixed monolayer gold nanoparticles: Effect of grafting density, chain length, and surface curvature

J Lin, H Zhang, V Morovati, R Dargazany - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2017 - Elsevier
PEGylation on nanoparticles (NPs) is widely used to prevent aggregation and to mask NPs
from the fast clearance system in the body. Understanding the molecular details of the PEG …

The crucial role of solvation forces in the steric stabilization of nanoplatelets

N Petersen, M Girard, A Riedinger, O Valsson - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The steric stability of inorganic colloidal particles in an apolar solvent is usually described in
terms of the balance between three contributions: the van der Waals attraction, the free …

Morphology of passivating organic ligands around a nanocrystal

N Geva, JJ Shepherd, L Nienhaus… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor nanocrystals are a promising class of materials for a variety of novel
optoelectronic devices, since many of their properties, such as the electronic gap and …