water Archive

  • Effects of the surface density on the stability of surface electrostatics models

    Effects of the surface density on the stability of surface electrostatics models

    We’ve been extensively involved in developing new and testing already existing methods for continuous electrostatics problems solution. Large part of the effort is building and understanding of the so called Generalized Born models. It’s been known for quite a while that although various incarnations of...

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  • Surface GB models: the ultimate test

    Surface GB models: the ultimate test

    Continuous solvation models in general and Generalized Born models alike in particular provide a simplified though fast assessment of the solvation energies of biomolecules. Continuous water models help effectively eliminate vast number of degrees of freedom associated with the dynamics of water molecules and thus...

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  • Water molecules alignments on a hydrophobic surface – I

    Water molecules alignments on a hydrophobic surface – I

    Water molecules interact strongly “using” both the long range dipole-dipole and short-range “hydrogen bonds” to form sophisticated networks. As described in our previous post, water molecules align along a hydrophobic surface and form an strongly-interacting 2d system of molecular dipoles. Normally there is no true...

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  • Water polarization and density profiles at a gas-liquid interface

    Water polarization and density profiles at a gas-liquid interface

    The true picture of the water molecules ordering next to a hydrophobic surface or a liquid-gas interface is in fact more complicated than a model. Next to the interface both the water polarization and the density should vanish. To account for the density changes we incorporated the density variations into the free energy functional. The resulting model even though only in the mean field approximation reveals spontaneous liquid polarization at the liquid boundary. The spontaneous polarization of the liquid is the consequence of the dipole-dipole interactions and effectively makes the liquid interface behave as a ferro-electric film.

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  • Non-polar contribution to solvation energy from Born models:

    Non-polar contribution to solvation energy from Born models:

    Solvation energy contribution to protein-ligand binding conceptually consists of two different contributions. The first one is collective in nature, comes from the long range interaction of the molecules charges with polar water molecules. The other comes mostly from the short range interactions of the molecules...

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