Seminarium Fizyki Materii Skondensowanej
Sala Duża Teoretyczna (229), ul. Hoża 69
dr Magdalena Gruziel (IFT UW)
A simulation study of the aggregation of simple, chiral polymers
In the seminar I will present the results of the Langevin dynamicssimulations of chiral polymers represented by a simple, coarse-grainedmodel. These studies, inspired by a chiral bifurcation phenomenonobserved in the experiments of vortex-induced or pH-dependent aggregationof insulin, show cluster configurations, in terms of their handedness,dependent on the twist and handedness of constituting polymers.Whether the possible explanation of this behaviour helps inunderstanding the experimental results still remains a question.