Understanding the structure and dynamics of soft nanoparticles with molecular dynamics simulations
Chris Lorenz, King’s College, United Kingdom
Monday 28 July 2025, 10.00 AM
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Abstract
Over the past several years, we have used molecular dynamics simulations to investigate a wide variety of nanoparticles formed by soft matter ranging from surfactants to lipids to polymers to peptides. Our investigations have been driven by understanding the internal and interfacial structure of the various formulations we have investigated, so that we could gain insight into the correlation between these properties and the function of the nanoparticle, whether that be drug delivery or biosensing. Additionally, we have investigated the interactions of these nanoparticles with their environments including with lipid membranes. In doing so, we have developed various tools to build and analyse these simulations. In this talk I will present a selection of these investigations and the tools that we have created to provide the insight that we have obtained.
Short bio
Chris Lorenz is the Head of the Department of Engineering, King's College London. A Professor of Computational Materials Science, Chris received a combined BS/MS in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1997. Chris continued on to earn his PhD in chemical engineering in 2001 at the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Ziff, with whom he investigated ‘Chemical Engineering Applications of Percolation Theory.’
In 2001, Chris moved to Albuquerque, NM to work as a postdoc in Multi-scale Materials and Molecular Biology Simulations group at Sandia National Laboratories. In Dec. 2005, Chris moved to Ames, IA where he worked as a research fellow in the Physics Department of Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory. Chris was appointed as a lecturer at King’s College London in May 2007.
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