The Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation is used to investigate the vapor–liquid phase behavior of a binary Lennard–Jonesmixture confined in a slit-like pore at reduced temperature T* = 1.0. Our simulation program is tested by comparing the simulated phase diagram with the previous simulation results from various methods. Then phase diagrams of a binary asymmetric Lennard–Jones mixture confine...

We propose an exactly solvable simplified statistical mechanical model for the thermodynamics of β-amyloid aggregation, generalizing a well–studied model for protein folding. The monomer concentration is explicitly taken into account as well as a non trivial dependence on the microscopic degrees of freedom of the single peptide chain, both in the α-helix folded isolated state and in the fibrill...

Constructing phase diagram and its subsequent quality lines for lean gas condensate reservoirs is always crucial and challenging topic in reservoir fluid studies. Due to small amounts of liquid drop-outs in lean gas condensates at reservoir conditions, full experimental tracking of phase diagram and its relevant quality lines is almost impossible for lean gas condensates.On the other hand, ...

The protein tubulin is found in every cell of every living organism (with the exception of bacteria ) [1]. In the presence of guanosine-tri-phosphate (GTP) and magnesium ions (Mg +), tubulin-GTP complexes form [2] and aggregate [3] into long, hollow cylinders called microtu bules. Microtubules are about 25 nm in outer diameter, incorporate 1625 tubulin dimers per micrometer of their length [4] ...