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Implications of lipid monolayer charge characteristics on their selective interactions with a short antimicrobial peptide
Colloids and Surfaces B, 150, 308–316 (2017). Daniela Ciumac, Richard A. Campbell, Hai Xu, Luke A. Clifton, Arwel V. Hughes, John R.P. Webster, Jian R. Lu Many ...
pH-Responsive, Lysine-Based, Hyperbranched Polymers Mimicking Endosomolytic Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Efficient Intracellular Delivery
Chem. Mater., DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00054 (2017). Shiqi Wang and Rongjun Chen The insufficient delivery of biomacromolecular therapeutic agents into the ...
GPU implementation of the Rosenbluth generation method for static Monte Carlo simulations
Computer Physics Communications, 216, 95–101(2017). Yachong Guo, Vladimir A. Baulin We present parallel version of Rosenbluth Self-Avoiding Walk generation meth...
The susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus CIP 65.8 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9721 cells to the bactericidal action of nanostructured Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis damselfly wing surfaces
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2017). doi:10.1007/s00253-017-8205-9 Vi Khanh Truong, Nipuni Mahanamanam Geeganagamage, Vladimir A. Baulin, Jitraporn Vongsvivut, Mar...
Dynamic studies of the interaction of a pH responsive, amphiphilic polymer with a DOPC lipid membrane
Soft Matter, 13, 3690-3700 (2017) Sivaramakrishnan Ramadurai, Marco Werner, Nigel K.H. Slater, Aaron Martin, Vladimir A. Baulin, Tia Keyes Deeper understanding ...
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