How water's properties are encoded in its molecular structure and energies

E Brini, CJ Fennell, M Fernandez-Serra… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
How are water's material properties encoded within the structure of the water molecule? This
is pertinent to understanding Earth's living systems, its materials, its geochemistry and …

Permeability of small molecules through a lipid bilayer: a multiscale simulation study

M Orsi, WE Sanderson, JW Essex - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The transmembrane permeation of eight small (molecular weight< 100) organic molecules
across a phospholipid bilayer is investigated by multiscale molecular dynamics simulation …

Permeability of drugs and hormones through a lipid bilayer: insights from dual-resolution molecular dynamics

M Orsi, JW Essex - Soft Matter, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The unassisted permeation process of β-blocker drugs (alprenolol, atenolol, pindolol) and
steroid hormones (progesterone, testosterone) through a lipid membrane is simulated by a …

Comparative assessment of the ELBA coarse-grained model for water

M Orsi - Molecular Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The ELBA force field for water consists of a single spherical site embedded with a point
dipole. This coarse-grained model is assessed here through the calculation of fundamental …

A quantitative coarse-grain model for lipid bilayers

M Orsi, DY Haubertin, WE Sanderson… - The Journal of Physical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A simplified particle-based computer model for hydrated phospholipid bilayers has been
developed and applied to quantitatively predict the major physical features of fluid-phase …

Guest-free monolayer clathrate and its coexistence with two-dimensional high-density ice

J Bai, CA Angell, XC Zeng - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Three-dimensional (3D) gas clathrates are ice-like but distinguished from bulk ices by
containing polyhedral nano-cages to accommodate small gas molecules. Without space …

Coarse-grain modelling of DMPC and DOPC lipid bilayers

M Orsi, J Michel, JW Essex - Journal of physics: Condensed …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Our recently developed coarse-grain model for dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) has
been improved and extended to dioleylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), a more typical …

The phase diagram of water at negative pressures: Virtual ices

MM Conde, C Vega, GA Tribello… - The Journal of chemical …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The phase diagram of water at negative pressures as obtained from computer simulations
for two models of water, TIP4P/2005 and TIP5P is presented. Several solid structures with …

Prediction of partition coefficients by multiscale hybrid atomic-level/coarse-grain simulations

J Michel, M Orsi, JW Essex - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grain models are becoming an increasingly important tool in computer simulations
of a wide variety of molecular processes. In many instances it is, however, desirable to …

Dielectric constant and density dependence of the structure of supercritical carbon dioxide using a new modified empirical potential model: a Monte Carlo simulation …

Y Zhang, J Yang, YX Yu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2005 - ACS Publications
Two modified versions of the Elementary Physical Model (EPM)[J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99,
12021] for supercritical carbon dioxide have been proposed in this work and their validities …