Coarse-grained self-assembly of lipids and PEG surfactants

Work by Wataru Shinoda (AIST Tsukuba, Japan) in collaboration with Russell DeVane and Michael Klein (Temple U) to study self-assembly of organic molecules and their long-timescale behavior using a novel coarse-grained parametrization scheme.

Both systems in these images have about 1 million particles. The first image shows a vesicle interacting with a lipid bilayer. The second system represents an aqueous surfactant solution run for 100 nanoseconds before it undergoes a phase transition to the final ordered state.