Topology, landscapes, and biomolecular energy transport

Justin E. Elenewski; Kirill A. Velizhanin; Michael Zwolak

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12700-w

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Topology, landscapes, and biomolecular energy transport

Justin E. Elenewski,
Kirill A. Velizhanin,
Michael Zwolak

Affiliations

Justin E. Elenewski: Biophysics Group, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kirill A. Velizhanin: Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Zwolak: Biophysics Group, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12700-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Understanding vibrational energy transfer in macromolecules has been challenging to both theory and experiment. Here the authors use non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to reveal the relationship between heat transport in a model peptide, emergent nonlinearity, and the underlying free energy landscape.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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