Structural Properties of Cationic Surfactant-Fatty Alcohol Bilayers: Insights from Dissipative Particle Dynamics

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Svoboda ◽  
Maria Guadalupe Jimenez Serratos ◽  
Adam Jan Kowalski ◽  
Michael Cooke ◽  
Cesar Mendoza ◽  
...  

Bilayers, self-assembled by cationic surfactants and fatty alcohols in water, are the basic units of lamellar gel networks - creamy formulations extensively used in cosmetics and pharmaceutics. Mesoscopic modelling and...

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Panoukidou ◽  
Charlie R Wand ◽  
Paola Carbone

Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) is a powerful mesoscopic modelling technique that is routinely used to predict complex fluid morphology and structural properties. While its ability to quickly scan the conformational...


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1095-1102
Author(s):  
Yusuke Araki ◽  
Yusei Kobayashi ◽  
Noriyoshi Arai

We have studied the self-assembled process and structures of tetrapod nanoparticle solutions using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (61) ◽  
pp. 8306-8308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuejin Li ◽  
Yu-Hang Tang ◽  
Haojun Liang ◽  
George Em Karniadakis

GPU-accelerated dissipative particle dynamics has been explored to probe the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in a soft confined environment.


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