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Probabilistic Models for Damage and Self-repair in DNA Self-Assembly

Majumder U., Duke University, US

DNA self-assembly is the autonomous phenomenon where components (single strands or structures made of DNA single strands organize themselves into stable superstructures. Since its inception the focus of DNA self-assembly based nanostructures has mostly been [...]

Von Neumann Entropies Analysis of Nanostructures: PAMAM Dendrimers of Growing Generation

Esquivel R.O., Flores-Gallegos N., Carrera E., Universidad Autonoma Metropoiltana, MX

Quantum Information Theory is a new field with potential implications for the conceptual foundations of Quantum Mechanics through density matrices. In particular, information entropies in Hilbert space representation are highly advantageous in contrast with the [...]

Monte Carlo simulations of 1keV to 100keV electron trajectories from vacuum through solids into air and resulting current density and energy profiles

Hieke A., GEMIO Technologies, Inc., US

Increased awareness to use environmentally friendly methods for surface sterilization has rejuvenated interest in methods based on electron beam irradiation. Thus far, Monte Carlo electron beam simulations have been described either as typical electron optics [...]

Molecular Simulation of the Nanoscale Water Confined between an Atomic Force Microscope Tip and a Surface

Choi H.J., Kim J-Y, Hong S.D., Ha M.Y., Jang J., Pusan National University, KR

Under ambient humidity, water condenses as a meniscus between an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip and a surface, giving rise to a strong capillary force on the tip. We performed a molecular dynamics simulation of [...]

Computations on (Li)x@C60

Slanina Z., Nagase S., Institute for Molecular Science, JP

Li@C60 and Li@C70 can be now produced by the low-energy bombardment method in bulk amounts and thus, their computations at higher levels of theory are also of interest. In the report, the computations are carried [...]

DNA Mechanical Properties: Formulation and comparison with experiments

Dalir H., Nisisako T., Yanagida Y., Hatsuzawa T., Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP

The DNA molecule is the primary genetic material of most organisms. It is a double-helical biopolymer in which two chains of complementary wind around a common axis to form a double-helical structure. This paper aims [...]

Direct Numerical Simulation of Carbon Nanofibre Composites:

Yamanoi M., Maia J.M., University of Minho, PT

For functional applications of carbon nanotube and carbon nanofibre as composites, technologies of how to control orientation, dispersion and distribution are important would be a break-through if they were developed. So far, most of the [...]

Assembly of Nanoscale Scaffolds from Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA)

Husk Jr. T., Bergstrom D.E., Purdue University, US

Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA has been demonstrated to be a useful scaffold for self-assembling nanomaterials. Peptide nucleic acids, or PNA, which retains the nucleic acid bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine on a pseudo-peptide backbone [...]

Quantitative Analysis of HBV Capsid Protein Geometry Based Upon Computational Nanotechnology

Soundararajan H.C., Sivanandam M., Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, IN

Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of computer science, functional mathematics and statistics to address problems inspired by biology. Numerous studies have shown that structure of proteins contribute towards their functionality [...]

Molecular dynamic simulations of bio-nanocomplexes involfing LDH nanoparticles and short-strand DNA/RNA

Tran P., Wong Y., Lu G.Q., Smith S.C., University of Queensland, AU

A variety of organic structures can be intercalated into layered double hydroxides (LDH) structures, making LDH nanoparticles highly promising vehicles for drug delivery and gene therapy applications. The nature of the interactions between DNA (or [...]