Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Coacervates: Insights from Molecular Simulations.

ABSTRACT: Electrostatic interactions in polymeric systems are responsible for a wide range of liquid-liquid phase transitions that are of importance for biology and materials science. Such transitions are referred to as complex coacervation, and recent studies have sought to understand the underlying physics and chemistry. Most theoretical and simulation efforts to date have focused on oppositely charged linear polyelectrolytes, which adopt nearly ideal-coil conformations in the condensed phase. However, when one of the coacervate components is a globular protein, a better model of complexation should replace one of the species with a spherical charged particle or colloid. In this work, we perform coarse-grained simulations of colloid-polyelectrolyte coacervation using a spherical model for the coll

SUBMITTER: Yu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538443 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature