DPD simulations of liposome formation

Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) simulation of liposome formation. One lipid molecule has been tagged to better illustrate lipid dynamics during the self-assembly process.

References:

1. How would you integrate the equations of motion in dissipative particle dynamics simulations? Petri Nikunen, Mikko Karttunen, and Ilpo Vattulainen Comp. Phys. Comm. 153, 407-421 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4655(03)00202-9

2. Towards better integrators for dissipative particle dynamics simulations, G. Besold, I. Vattulainen, M. Karttunen, and J.M. Polson, Phys. Rev. E, vol. 63, pp. R7611-R7614 (2000). http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v62/pR7611

3. Modeling of biologically motivated soft matter systems.
I. Vattulainen and M. Karttunen. In the "Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology", edited by M. Rieth and W. Schommers (American Scientific Publishers).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• softsimu
• liposomes
• self-assembly
• molecular dynamics
• biophysics

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