Ming-cheng GONG, Liang-liang ZHOU, Xin-yue MA, Zhen-hua CHEN. Research Progress in the Application of Molecular Simulation in Nanoscale Drug Carriers[J]. Polymer Bulletin, 2022,35(8):21-28.
Ming-cheng GONG, Liang-liang ZHOU, Xin-yue MA, Zhen-hua CHEN. Research Progress in the Application of Molecular Simulation in Nanoscale Drug Carriers[J]. Polymer Bulletin, 2022,35(8):21-28. DOI: 10.14028/j.cnki.1003-3726.2022.08.003.
Nano drug-carrying system has become a research hotspot in the field of biomedicine in recent years because of its characteristics of improving pharmacokinetic properties
reducing toxicity
controlling dissolution
and targeting. Molecular simulation is a novel resource-saving prediction method that can be used to simulate the formation
behavior
and structure changes of nanoparticles under different conditions. The calculation results can help predict the materials required for experiments. This review introduces simulation methods at different scales
including all-atomic molecular dynamics (AAMD)
Monte Carlo (MC)
coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) and dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) methods
and the theoretical basis and the latest simulation progress are described.