PUCHIK: A Python Package To Analyze Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Aspherical Nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: Accurately describing a nanoparticle's interface is crucial for understanding its internal structure, interfacial properties, and ultimately, its functionality. While current computational methods provide reasonable descriptions for spherical and quasi-spherical nanoparticles, there remains a need for effective models for aspherical structures such as capsules and rod-like systems. This work introduces Python Utility for Characterizing Heterogeneous Interfaces and Kinetics (PUCHIK), a novel algorithm developed to describe both spherelike and aspherical nanoparticles. With an accurate description of the location of the interface of the nanoparticle, this algorithm then allows for various other important quantities (e.g., densities of different atom/molecule types relative to the interface,

SUBMITTER: Ishkhanyan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11863366 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature