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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 143, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4927327
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) post-doctoral fellowship [PBELP2-123020]
- DoE-BES, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division [DE-FG02-12ER16286]
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PBELP2-123020] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications are usually coated with organic molecules to form a steric barrier against agglomeration. The stability of these coatings is well established in the synthesis medium but is more difficult to assess in physiological environment. To obtain a first theoretical estimate of their stability in such an environment, we perform density functional theory calculations of the adsorption of water, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) coating molecules, as well as the monomer and dimer of glycine as a prototype short peptide, on the (110) surface of magnetite (Fe3O4) in vacuo. Our results show that PVA binds significantly stronger to the surface than both PEG and glycine, while the difference between the latter two is quite small. Depending on the coverage, the water adsorption strength is intermediate between PVA and glycine. Due to its strongly interacting OH side groups, PVA is likely to remain bound to the surface in the presence of short peptides. This stability will have to be further assessed by molecular dynamics in the solvated state for which the present work forms the basis. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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