scholarly journals Detection of Posner's clusters during calcium phosphate nucleation: a molecular dynamics study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (35) ◽  
pp. 7274-7284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Mancardi ◽  
Carlos Ernesto Hernandez Tamargo ◽  
Devis Di Tommaso ◽  
Nora H. de Leeuw

Molecular dynamics simulations of calcium and phosphate ions in water show that Posner-like clusters originate during the aggregation process.

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 8730-8738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nerea Epelde-Elezcano ◽  
Virginia Martínez-Martínez ◽  
Eduardo Duque-Redondo ◽  
Inés Temiño ◽  
Hegoi Manzano ◽  
...  

The aggregation process of pyronin Y (PY) dye into thin films of different smectite clays, LAPONITE® and saponite, is deeply studied by means of electronic absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and by molecular dynamics simulations.


CrystEngComm ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (42) ◽  
pp. 6354-6364 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Innocenti Malini ◽  
C. L. Freeman ◽  
J. H. Harding

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we show for the first time that calcium phosphate nanoparticles of eight formula units are thermodynamically stable and could be key in the nucleation of amorphous calcium phosphate.


2021 ◽  
Vol 125 (38) ◽  
pp. 21179-21190
Author(s):  
Karien I. García ◽  
Gonzalo R. Quezada ◽  
José L. Arumí ◽  
Roberto Urrutia ◽  
Pedro G. Toledo

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (57) ◽  
pp. 8007-8010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Collu ◽  
Enrico Spiga ◽  
Nesrine Chakroun ◽  
Human Rezaei ◽  
Franca Fraternali

We present results extracted from molecular dynamics simulations aimed at investigating the aggregation process of the β-rich ovine prion protein.


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