Energetics of protein nucleation on rough polymeric surfaces

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 13650-13655

  Curcio, Efrem ^a   Curcio, Valerio ^b   Di Profi, Gianluca ^a   Fontananova, Enrica ^a   Drioli, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Liceo Scientifico T Lucrezio Caro   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; ISING MODEL; NUCLEATION; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CLASSICAL NUCLEATION THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEN EGG WHITE LYSOZYME; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HOMOGENEOUS PHASE; METROPOLIS MONTE CARLO; MOLECULAR AGGREGATION; NUCLEATION KINETICS; NUCLEATION PROCESS; NUCLEATION RATE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLY(VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE); POLYMERIC SURFACES; PROTEIN CRYSTAL; PROTEIN MODELS; PROTEIN NUCLEATION; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ISING MODEL;

POLYMERS;

EID: 78549295187     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp106349d     Document Type: Article

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