Peptide based nanomaterials: Morphology control
Development of new well ordered, functional biomaterials based on the underlying principal of self assembly has immense application in nanotechnology, nanomedicine and tissue engineering. Peptide based nanomaterials are not only biocompatible but also their properties can be altered easily by slight changes in environmental conditions and/or side chains of amino acids. We are doing multiscale simulation study on many interesting peptides systems that exhibit different morphologies upon slightly altering the primary sequence of peptides.
Coarse-Grained Simulations of Peptide Nanoparticle Formation: Role of Local Structure and Nonbonded Interactions, A. Jain, C. Globisch, S. Verma & C. Peter, J. Chem. Theory Comput., 15 (2), 1453-1462, 2019. [doi]