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ArticlePhysical review. E2017

Extending electrostatics of dielectric spheres to arbitrary charge distributions with applications to biosystems.

T P Doerr, O I Obolensky, Yi-Kuo Yu

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Article in Physical review. E, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Surface charge method for molecular surfaces with curved areal elements I. Spherical triangles.Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

T P DoerrNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
O I ObolenskyNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Yi-Kuo YuNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.

Funding

Physical Foundation of Biomolecular InteractionsZIALM200601 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI YU, YI-KUO · 2009 to 2025
$8.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA LM200601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A previously developed classical model of electrostatic interactions, based on a formalism of dielectric spheres, which has been found to have surprising accuracy for S state atoms, is extended by allowing higher-order moments of the intrinsic charge distribution. Two methods to introduce the charge distribution (point moments at the center vs surface charge) are shown to be equivalent and are compared with another common model for polarizable atoms that utilizes polarizable point dipoles. Unlike the polarizable point dipole model, the polarizable spheres models do not suffer from a divergence at small separation of atoms and are easily generalized to higher multipoles.

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Models, MolecularStatic ElectricityModels, Biological

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PMID29347333
PMCPMC6312187

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