Archive for December, 2009

  • O(N) Surface Charges Generalized Born calculation demonstration

    O(N) Surface Charges Generalized Born calculation demonstration

    Surface Charges Generalized Born (SCGB) family of the polar solvation energy caclulation methods is a recently developed approach aimed at getting fast numerical solutions of the Poisson Boltzmann equation in linear time (and memory). SCGB combines the bests of the two worlds: the simplicity of...

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  • Ferro-electric phase transition in a polar liquid and the nature of \lambda-transition in supercooled water

    Ferro-electric phase transition in a polar liquid and the nature of \lambda-transition in supercooled water

    P.O. Fedichev, L.I. Menshikov (Submitted on 7 Aug 2008 (v1), last revised 20 Dec 2009 (this version, v3)) We develop a series of approximations to calculate free energy of a polar liquid. We show that long range nature of dipole interactions between the molecules leads...

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  • Phospholipid membranes repulsion at nm-distances explained within a continuous water model

    Phospholipid membranes repulsion at nm-distances explained within a continuous water model

    P. O. Fedichev, L.I. Menshikov (Submitted on 5 Aug 2009 (v1), last revised 14 Dec 2009 (this version, v2)) We apply recently developed phenomenological theory of polar liquids to calculate the repulsive pressure between two hydrophilic membranes at nm-distances. We find that the repulsion does...

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  • O(N) continuous electrostatics solvation energies calculation method for biomolecules simulations

    O(N) continuous electrostatics solvation energies calculation method for biomolecules simulations

    P.O. Fedichev, E.G. Getmantsev, L.I. Men’shikov (Submitted on 12 Aug 2009 (v1), last revised 9 Dec 2009 (this version, v2)) We report a development of a new fast surface-based method for numerical calculations of solvation energy of biomolecules with a large number of charged groups....

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  • Talk: water as a segnetoelectric, anomalous properties of polar liquids and interactions at nm-scales

    Talk: water as a segnetoelectric, anomalous properties of polar liquids and interactions at nm-scales

    The talk “Water as a segnetoelectric, anomalous properties and interactions of molecular sized objects at nm-distances” (in Russian). The talk was a part of IAChPhys seminar held at the Institute of Molecular Physics, Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”. The talk in part mirrored the last...

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