Publication:Crystal Growth Design
Authors:Dr. Peiyu Zhang et al.
Date:Nov. 18, 2018
Accurate and rapid crystal structure predictions have the potential to transform the development of new materials, particularly in fields with highly complex molecular structures (such as in drug development). In this work we present a novel cloud-computing crystal structure prediction (CSP) platform with the capability of scheduling hundreds of thousands CPU cores and integrating cutting-edge computational chemistry algorithms.…
Publication:Science Advances
Authors:Dr. Peiyu Zhang et al.
Date:May 11, 2018
The self-assembly of peptides into ordered nanostructures is important for understanding both peptide molecular interactions and nanotechnological applications. However, because of the complexity and various self-assembling pathways of peptide molecules, design of self-assembling helical pepti…
Publication:Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Authors:Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
Date:April 25, 2018
We present an extension of the CHARMM Drude polarizable force field to enable modeling of polysaccharides containing pyranose and furanose monosaccharides. The new force field parameters encompass 1↔2, 1→3, 1→4, and 1→6 pyranose–furanose linkages, 2→1 and 2→…
Publication:Carbohydrate Research
Authors:Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
Date:March 2, 2018
Motivated by underestimation of the diffusion constant of glucose in aqueous solution at high glucose concentrations we performed additional optimization of the Drude polarizable hexopyranose monosaccharide force field. This indicated aggregation of the glucose at higher concentrations, which …