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Molecular Modeling: Controlling the Nanoscale Rotational Behaviors of Nanoparticles on the Cell Membranes: A Computational Model (Small 9/2016)
Author(s) -
Ji QiuJu,
Yuan Bing,
Lu XueMei,
Yang Kai,
Ma YuQiang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201670041
Subject(s) - nanoparticle , membrane , nanoscopic scale , materials science , rotation (mathematics) , nanotechnology , particle (ecology) , front cover , molecular dynamics , chemical physics , cover (algebra) , physics , chemistry , computational chemistry , geometry , mechanical engineering , engineering , mathematics , biochemistry , oceanography , geology
The surprisingly spontaneous rotation behavior of nanoparticles whose surfaces are coated by two types of different ligands on the cell membrane surfaces are found by K. Yang, Y.‐Q. Ma, and co‐workers using computer simulations. As shown on page 1140 and illustrated in the lovely front cover of this special issue, such rotations of nanoparticles, and the final preferred configurations of nanoparticles and the membranes, are mostly dependent on the lengths or chain rigidities of ligands, while the particle shapes or the initial orientations of nanoparticles do not matter.