Development of a coarse-grained α-chitin model on the basis of MARTINI forcefield

At nanoscale, atomistic simulation is widely used for investigating crystalline chitin fibers, the structural component for many biological materials. However, the longitudinal dimension of naturally occurring chitin fibers exceeds hundreds of nanometer, beyond the investigation range of all-atom si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yu, Zechuan, Lau, Tak Bun Denvid
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103324