Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genoa, Italy
Abstract
We use an ad hoc enhanced sampling procedure to study biomembrane fusion induced by functionalized Au nanoparticles with different core sizes, demonstrating that a smaller core makes the nanoparticles more fusogenic, enhancing the stalk stability.
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Subject
General Engineering,General Materials Science,General Chemistry,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Bioengineering