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Stabilizing helicity of polypeptide in aqueous urea: Dipole orientation or hydrogen bonding?
Luis A. Baptista, Yani Zhao, Kurt Kremer +2
Urea denatures proteins due to its strong tendency to dehydrate the first solvation shell via urea-residue preferential binding. However, even after extensive experimental and comp…
Proline isomerization regulates the phase behavior of elastin-like polypeptides in water
Yani Zhao, Kurt Kremer
Responsiveness of polypeptides and polymers in aqueous solution plays an important role in biomedical applications and in designing advanced functional materials. Elastin-like poly…
Why Do Elastin-Like Polypeptides Possibly Have Different Solvation Behaviors in Water-Ethanol and Water-Urea Mixtures?
Yani Zhao, Manjesh K. Singh, Kurt Kremer +2
The solvent quality determines the collapsed or the expanded state of a polymer. For example, a polymer dissolved in a poor solvent collapses, whereas in a good solvent it opens up…
The topological effect on the Mechanical properties of polymer knots
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
The mechanical properties of polymer knots under stretching in a bad or good solvent are investigated by applying a given force to a point of the knot while keeping another poi…
Ring polymers with topological constraints
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
In the first part of this work a summary is provided of some recent experiments and theoretical results which are relevant in the research of systems of polymer rings in nontrivial…
A study of polymer knots using a simple knot invariant written consisting of multiple contour integrals
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
In this work the thermodynamic properties of short polymer knots (up to 120 segments) defined on a simple cubic lattice are studied with the help of the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo alg…
A numerical technique for preserving the topology of polymer knots: The case of short-range attractive interactions
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
The statistical mechanics of single polymer knots is studied using Monte Carlo simulations. The polymers are considered on a cubic lattice and their conformations are randomly chan…
Topological effects in the thermal properties of knotted polymer rings
Yani Zhao, Franco Ferrari
The topological effects on the thermal properties of several knot configurations are investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. In order to check if the topology of the knots is p…