Encapsulation of active species is an important technical issue to be applied to a variety of practical areas such as drug delivery, nutraceuticals carrier, pesticide delivery, prolonged computed tomography (CT) contrasting agent, corrosion inhibition, and energy...
Modeling of Bulk Kerogen Porosity: Methods for Control and Characterization
Shale gas is an unconventional source of energy, which has attracted a lot of attention during the last years. Kerogen is a prime constituent of shale formations and plays a crucial role in shale gas technology. Significant experimental effort in the study of shales...
Solubility of Pharmaceuticals: A Comparison Between SciPharma, a PC-SAFT-based Approach, and NRTL-SAC
The solubility of seven pharmaceutical compounds (paracetamol, benzoic acid, 4-aminobenzoic acid, salicylic acid, ibuprofen, naproxen and temazepam) in pure and mixed solvents as a function of temperature is calculated with SciPharma, a semi-empirical approach based...
Unscrambling Micro-solvation of –COOH and –NH Groups in Neat Dimethyl Sulfoxide: Insights from 1H-NMR Spectroscopy and Computational Studies
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has a significant, multi-faceted role in medicine, pharmacy, and biology as well as in biophysical chemistry and catalysis. Its physical properties and impact on biomolecular structures still attract major scientific interest, especially the...
Property Analysis of Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets Modified Asphalt Model Using Molecular Dynamics (MD) Method
This Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation paper presents a physical property comparison study between exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets (xGNP) modified and control asphalt models, including density, glass transition temperature, viscosity and thermal conductivity. The...
Molecular Modeling of Microporous Structures of Carbide-Derived Carbon Based Supercapacitors
Microporous carbide-derived carbons are an important structural class for various technological applications. We present two possible strategies based on molecular dynamics simulations for modeling microporous amorphous carbon. In addition, we have investigated the...
Reverse Micelles As Antioxidant Carriers: An Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Study
Water-in-oil microemulsions with biocompatible components were formulated to be used as carriers of natural antioxidants, such as hydroxytyrosol (HT) and gallic acid (GA). The system was composed of a mixture of natural surfactants, lecithin and monoglycerides, medium...
Modeling of Bulk Kerogen Porosity: Methods for Control and Characterization
Shale gas is an unconventional source of energy, which has attracted a lot of attention during the last years. Kerogen is a prime constituent of shale formations and plays a crucial role in shale gas technology. Significant experimental effort in the study of shales...
Molecular Simulations of Free and Graphite Capped Polyethylene Films: Estimation of the Interfacial Free Energies
We present a reliable simulation strategy for estimating the surface tension, the work of adhesion, and all related macroscopic work functions of fluid/vacuum and fluid/solid interfaces, directly from the atomic-level stresses in the system. Our methodology employs...
Slip-Spring Model for the Linear and Nonlinear Viscoelastic Properties of Molten Polyethylene Derived from Atomistic Simulations
Atomistic simulations have been very useful for predicting the viscoelastic properties of polymers but face great difficulties in accessing the dynamics of dense, well entangled long-chain melts with relaxation times longer than μs due to the high computational cost...