Institute of
bioorganic chemistry

To achieve control over the formation of a biomolecular corona, it is necessary to control the surface properties of nanoparticles (NPs). Hence, approaches to study the structure and dynamics of NPs surface with high resolution are required. Researchers from IBCh RAS and IC RAS proposed to generate topography maps of NPs surface from MD simulation data, and applied them to analyze the surface structure and dynamics of ligand-containing core–shell NPs. It has been shown that topography maps of NPs surface allow one to evaluate properties important for drug delivery systems. The work was published in the Biomaterials Science journal. Preprint available at ChemRxiv.