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Nico F. A. van der Vegt

Nico F. A. van der Vegt

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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
10193
World Ranking
13464
National Ranking
986

Overview

Nico F. A. van der Vegt is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Their research spans across several intersecting scientific disciplines, with a core focus on materials science, physics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, van der Vegt has contributed notably to several subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Organic Chemistry

Their research topics cover a diverse range of scientific phenomena, emphasizing:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function

Van der Vegt has published extensively in various respected scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Recent publications by Nico F. A. van der Vegt include:

  • Introducing Memory in Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulations, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Molecular Mechanism for the Interactions of Hofmeister Cations with Macromolecules in Aqueous Solution, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Protein Stability in TMAO and Mixed Urea-TMAO Solutions, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • Cononsolvency of thermoresponsive polymers: where we are now and where we are going, 2022, Soft Matter
  • A cosolvent surfactant mechanism affects polymer collapse in miscible good solvents, 2020, Communications Chemistry

The scientist often collaborates with multiple frequent co-authors, including:

  • Swaminath Bharadwaj
  • Viktor Klippenstein
  • Madhusmita Tripathy
  • Paul S. Cremer
  • Marvin P. Bernhardt

Best Publications

  • Biomolecular modeling: Goals, problems, perspectives.

    Wilfred F. van Gunsteren;Dirk Bakowies;Riccardo Baron;Indira Chandrasekhar

  • What is the contact angle of water on graphene

    Fereshte Taherian;Valentina Marcon;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Frédéric Leroy

  • Validation of the 53A6 GROMOS force field.

    Chris Oostenbrink;Thereza A. Soares;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Wilfred F. van Gunsteren

  • Systematic coarse-graining methods for soft matter simulations - a review

    Emiliano Brini;Elena A. Algaer;Pritam Ganguly;Chunli Li

  • Hydration thermodynamic properties of amino acid analogues: A systematic comparison of biomolecular force fields and water models

    Berk Hess;Nico F. A. Van Der Vegt

  • Cation specific binding with protein surface charges

    Berk Hess;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • Water-Mediated Ion Pairing: Occurrence and Relevance

    Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Kristoffer Haldrup;Sylvie Roke;Junrong Zheng

  • Structure-Based Coarse- and Fine-Graining in Soft Matter Simulations

    Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Christine Peter;Kurt Kremer

  • Multiscale modeling of soft matter: scaling of dynamics.

    Dominik Fritz;Konstantin Koschke;Vagelis A. Harmandaris;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • Comparison between coarse-graining models for polymer systems: Two mapping schemes for polystyrene

    Vagelis A. Harmandaris;Dirk Reith;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Kurt Kremer

  • Convergence of Sampling Kirkwood-Buff Integrals of Aqueous Solutions with Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

    Pritam Ganguly;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • Coarse-Grained Polymer Melts Based on Isolated Atomistic Chains: Simulation of Polystyrene of Different Tacticities

    Dominik Fritz;Vagelis A. Harmandaris;Kurt Kremer;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • Osmotic coefficients of atomistic NaCl (aq) force fields

    Berk Hess;Christian Holm;Nico van der Vegt

  • Does urea denature hydrophobic interactions

    Maeng-Eun Lee;Nico F. A. Van Der Vegt

  • Long time atomistic polymer trajectories from coarse grained simulations: bisphenol-A polycarbonate

    Berk Hess;Salvador León;Salvador León;Nico van der Vegt;Kurt Kremer

  • Modeling multibody effects in ionic solutions with a concentration dependent dielectric permittivity

    Berk Hess;Christian Holm;Nico van der Vegt

  • The Hydrophobic Effect and the Role of Cosolvents

    Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Divya Nayar

  • Hofmeister ion interactions with model amide compounds.

    Elena A. Algaer;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • Trimethylamine N-oxide Counteracts Urea Denaturation by Inhibiting Protein-Urea Preferential Interaction.

    Pritam Ganguly;Pablo Boserman;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Joan-Emma Shea

  • An effective force field for molecular dynamics simulations of dimethyl sulfoxide and dimethyl sulfoxide-water mixtures

    D. P. Geerke;C. Oostenbrink;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;W. F. van Gunsteren

  • Mechanism of Polymer Collapse in Miscible Good Solvents.

    Francisco Rodríguez-Ropero;Timir Hajari;Nico F. A. van der Vegt

  • How good are coarse-grained polymer models? A comparison for atactic polystyrene

    Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh;Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh;Nico F. A. van der Vegt;Florian Müller-Plathe;Paola Carbone

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Chris Oostenbrink
Chris Oostenbrink BOKU University
Paul S. Cremer
Paul S. Cremer Pennsylvania State University
Christian Holm
Christian Holm University of Stuttgart
Matthias Wessling
Matthias Wessling RWTH Aachen University
Ping Sheng
Ping Sheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Weijia Wen
Weijia Wen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Martin Hanke
Martin Hanke Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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