Słowa kluczowe: Biomembrane Monte Carlo simulation Lipids GPU­computing Krótkie streszczenie: This paper introduces novel method of simulation of lipid biomembranes based on 1 Metropolis­Hastings algorithm and Graphic Processing Unit computational power. Method gives up to 55 times computational boost in comparison to classical computations. Extensive study of algorithm correctness is provided....

A new monomer, 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl choline phosphate, and its direct polymerization into a polyvalent choline phosphate are described, providing a universal biomembrane adhesive exhibiting rapid, strong attachment to any mammalian cell membrane and fast internalization, properties of great value in applications such as tissue engineering and drug delivery.

The core component of a biological membrane is a fluid-lipid bilayer held together by interfacial-hydrophobic and van der Waals interactions, which are balanced for the most part by acyl chain entropy confinement. If biomembranes are subjected to persistent tensions, an unstable (nanoscale) hole will emerge at some time to cause rupture. Because of the large energy required to create a hole, th...

1Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di Venezia, DD 2137 30123 Venice, Italy 2Dipartimento di Chimica Inorganica, Metallorganica ed Analitica, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padua, Italy 3Dipartimento di Biologia, Via U. Bassi 58/b, Università di Padova, 35121 Padua, Italy 4Dipartimento di Chimica Biologica, Università di Padova, Viale G. Colombo 3 35121 Padua, Italy 5Ist...

In a recent paper the author has suggested a model which each lipid has more space available. This leads for a two-dimensional lipid bilayer in which both shortto an increase in the energy of the configuration. range repulsive forces and long-range attractive forces Because of the very large number of degrees of freeplay a role, and for which the equilibrium statistical dom the outcome of this ...