3 papers
math.NA2022
Structural analysis of water networks
Michele Benzi, Isabella Daidone, Chiara Faccio +1
Liquid water, besides being fundamental for life on Earth, has long fascinated scientists due to several anomalies. Different hypotheses have been put forward to explain these pecu…
cond-mat.soft2021
Low, high and very-high density forms of liquid water revealed by a medium-range order descriptor
Chiara Faccio, Michele Benzi, Laura Zanetti-Polzi +1
We present in this paper a computational approach based on molecular dynamics simulations and graph theory to characterize the structure of liquid water considering not only the lo…
physics.bio-ph2019
Tip-Enhanced Infrared Difference-Nanospectroscopy of the Proton Pump Activity of Bacteriorhodopsin in Single Purple Membrane Patches
Valeria Giliberti, Raffaella Polito, Eglof Ritter +11
Photosensitive proteins embedded in the cell membrane (about 5 nm thickness) act as photoactivated proton pumps, ion gates, enzymes, or more generally, as initiators of stimuli for…