Molecular Modeling: Controlling the Nanoscale Rotational Behaviors of Nanoparticles on the Cell Membranes: A Computational Model (Small 9/2016)

The surprisingly spontaneous rotation behavior of nanoparticles whose surfaces are coated by two types of different ligands on the cell membrane surfaces are found by K. Yang, Y.-Q. Ma, and co-workers using computer simulations. As shown on page 1140 and illustrated in the lovely front cover of this special issue, such rotations of nanoparticles, and the final preferred configurations of nanoparticles and the membranes, are mostly dependent on the lengths or chain rigidities of ligands, while the particle shapes or the initial orientations of nanoparticles do not matter.