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Designing Multivalent Copolymers for Selective Targeting of Multicomponent Surfaces
Vid Ravnik, Urban Bren, Tine Curk
Selective targeting of membranes with a specific receptor profile is an ongoing challenge in targeted drug delivery. We investigate the adsorption of copolymers on a multicomponent…
Collapse/expansion dynamics and actuation of pH-responsive nanogels
Jiaxing Yuan, Tine Curk
Polyelectrolyte (PE) hydrogels can dynamically respond to external stimuli, such as changes in pH and temperature, which benefits their use for smart materials and nanodevices with…
Collapse and expansion kinetics of a single polyelectrolyte chain with hydrodynamic interactions
Jiaxing Yuan, Tine Curk
We investigate the collapse and expansion dynamics of a linear polyelectrolyte (PE) with hydrodynamic interactions. Using dissipative particle dynamics with a bead-spring PE model,…
Discontinuous transition in electrolyte flow through charge-patterned nanochannels
Tine Curk, Sergi G. Leyva, Ignacio Pagonabarraga
We investigate the flow of an electrolyte through a rigid nanochannel decorated with a surface charge pattern. Employing lattice Boltzmann and dissipative particle dynamics methods…
Dissipative particle dynamics for coarse-grained models
Tine Curk
We develop a computational method based on Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) that introduces solvent hydrodynamic interactions to coarse-grained models of solutes, such as ions,…
Spool-nematic ordering of dsDNA and dsRNA under confinement
James Farrell, Jure Dobnikar, Rudolf Podgornik +1
The ability of double-stranded DNA or RNA to locally melt and form kinks leads to strong non-linear elasticity effects that qualitatively affect their packing in confined spaces. U…
Phase Separation and Ripening in a Viscoelastic Gel
Tine Curk, Erik Luijten
The process of phase separation in elastic solids and viscous fluids is of fundamental importance to the stability and function of soft materials. We explore the dynamics of phase…
Accelerated simulation method for charge regulation effects
Tine Curk, Jiaxing Yuan, Erik Luijten
The net charge of solvated entities, ranging from polyelectrolytes and biomolecules to charged nanoparticles and membranes, depends on the local dissociation equilibrium of individ…
Charge-regulation effects in nanoparticle self-assembly
Tine Curk, Erik Luijten
Nanoparticles in solution acquire charge through dissociation or association of surface groups. Thus, a proper description of their electrostatic interactions requires the use of c…
Spontaneous Domain Formation in Spherically-Confined Elastic Filaments
Tine Curk, James Daniel Farrell, Jure Dobnikar +1
Although the free energy of a genome packing into a virus is dominated by DNA-DNA interactions, ordering of the DNA inside the capsid is elasticity-driven, suggesting general solut…
First-Order "Hyper-selective" Binding Transition of Multivalent Particles Under Force
Tine Curk, Nicholas B. Tito
Multivalent particles bind to targets via many independent ligand-receptor bonding interactions. This microscopic design spans length scales in both synthetic and biological system…
Coarse-Grained Simulation of DNA using LAMMPS
Oliver Henrich, Yair Augusto Gutierrez-Fosado, Tine Curk +1
During the last decade coarse-grained nucleotide models have emerged that allow us to DNA and RNA on unprecedented time and length scales. Among them is oxDNA, a coarse-grained, se…
Controlling cargo trafficking in multicomponent membranes
Tine Curk, Peter Wirnsberger, Jure Dobnikar +2
Biological membranes typically contain a large number of different components dispersed in small concentrations in the main membrane phase, including proteins, sugars, and lipids o…
Nanoparticle ordering in sandwiched polymer brushes
Tine Curk, Francisco J. Martinez-Veracoechea, Daan Frenkel +1
The organization of nano-particles inside grafted polymer layers is governed by the interplay of polymer-induced entropic interactions and the action of externally applied fields.…
Design principles for super selectivity using multivalent interactions
Tine Curk, Jure Dobnikar, Daan Frenkel
Multivalent particles have the ability to form multiple bonds to a substrate. Hence, a multivalent interaction can be strong, even if the individual bonds are weak. However, much m…
A new configurational bias scheme for sampling supramolecular structures
Robin De Gernier, Tine Curk, Galina V. Dubacheva +2
We present a new simulation scheme which allows an efficient sampling of reconfigurable supramolecular structures made of polymeric constructs functionalized by reactive binding si…
Layering, freezing and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement
Tine Curk, Anouk de Hoogh, Francisco J. Martinez-Veracoechea +4
Confinement can have a dramatic effect on the behavior of all sorts of particulate systems and it therefore is an important phenomenon in many different areas of physics and techno…
Collective sedimentation of colloids in grafted polymer layers
Tine Curk, Francisco J. Martinez-Veracoechea, Daan Frenkel +1
We present Monte Carlo simulations of colloidal particles pulled into grafted polymer layers by external fields. The insertion free energy of a single colloid into the polymer laye…