Developing Force Fields from the Microscopic Structure of Solutions: The Kirkwood-Buff Approach

Modeling Solvent Environments: Applications to Simulations of Biomolecules

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 55-76

  Weerasinghe, Samantha ^a   Gee, Moon Bae ^b   Kang, Myungshim ^b   Bentenitis, Nikolaos ^c   Smith, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Cosolvents; KBFF; Kirkwood Buff theory; Solvation; Urea

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952077598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527629251.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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