Effect of Surface Structure on Peptide Adsorption on Soft Surfaces

David Cheung

doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.6723929.v2

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Effect of Surface Structure on Peptide Adsorption on Soft Surfaces

29 April 2020, Version 2

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David Cheung

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Abstract

Using molecular dynamics simulations the adsorption of peptides onto nanostructured surfaces, consisting of alternating hydrophilic-hydrophobic stripes, was investigated. The adsorption strength, calculated using metadynamics, was found to decrease as the stripe width gets smaller.

Keywords

molecular dynamics

protein adsorption

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