[Illinois] Molecular modeling of structure and salt-responsive morphology of polyelectrolyte-based materials

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Abstract

In this talk, I will illustrate our recent progress in prediction of responsive morphologies of polyelectrolytes on the example of DNA- based materials. we used atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to determine the sequence, length, and solvent contributions on the persistence length of ssDNA. Our methodology permitted us to construct a morphological diagram of polyelectrolyte block copolymers in aqueous solution and evaluate the size of aggregates obtained along with their scaling relation

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Professor Yingling is an associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering of UNC-CH & NCSU and the Department of Chemistry at Duke University. Her research interests are focused on the development of multiscale molecular modeling of various processes in composite, soft and biological materials a to fundamentally understand the structure- property of soft materials systems formed through the process of self-assembly.

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  • Yaroslava G Yingling (2015), "[Illinois] Molecular modeling of structure and salt-responsive morphology of polyelectrolyte-based materials," https://nanohub.org/resources/23259.

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NanoBio Node, Aly Taha

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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