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Vitrac O, Nguyen PM, Hayert M. In Silico Prediction of Food Properties: A Multiscale Perspective. FRONTIERS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fceng.2021.786879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Several open software packages have popularized modeling and simulation strategies at the food product scale. Food processing and key digestion steps can be described in 3D using the principles of continuum mechanics. However, compared to other branches of engineering, the necessary transport, mechanical, chemical, and thermodynamic properties have been insufficiently tabulated and documented. Natural variability, accented by food evolution during processing and deconstruction, requires considering composition and structure-dependent properties. This review presents practical approaches where the premises for modeling and simulation start at a so-called “microscopic” scale where constituents or phase properties are known. The concept of microscopic or ground scale is shown to be very flexible from atoms to cellular structures. Zooming in on spatial details tends to increase the overall cost of simulations and the integration over food regions or time scales. The independence of scales facilitates the reuse of calculations and makes multiscale modeling capable of meeting food manufacturing needs. On one hand, new image-modeling strategies without equations or meshes are emerging. On the other hand, complex notions such as compositional effects, multiphase organization, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics are naturally incorporated in models without linearization or simplifications. Multiscale method’s applicability to hierarchically predict food properties is discussed with comprehensive examples relevant to food science, engineering and packaging. Entropy-driven properties such as transport and sorption are emphasized to illustrate how microscopic details bring new degrees of freedom to explore food-specific concepts such as safety, bioavailability, shelf-life and food formulation. Routes for performing spatial and temporal homogenization with and without chemical details are developed. Creating a community sharing computational codes, force fields, and generic food structures is the next step and should be encouraged. This paper provides a framework for the transfer of results from other fields and the development of methods specific to the food domain.
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Li J, Rao Q, Xia Y, Hoepfner M, Deo MD. Confinement-Mediated Phase Behavior of Hydrocarbon Fluids: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:7277-7288. [PMID: 32525322 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids confined in porous media has been reported to deviate significantly from that in the bulk environment due to the existence of sub-10 nm pores. Though experiments and simulations have measured the bubble/dew points and sorption isotherms of hydrocarbons confined in both natural and synthetic nanopores, the confinement effects in terms of the strength of fluid-pore interactions tuned by surface wettability and chemistry have received comparably less discussion. More importantly, the underlying physics of confinement-induced phenomena remain obfuscated. In this work, we studied the phase behavior and capillary condensation of n-hexane to understand the effects of confinement at the molecular level. To systematically investigate the pore effects, we constructed two types of wall confinements; one is a structureless virtual wall described by the Steele potential and the other one is an all-atom amorphous silica structure with surface modified by hydroxyl groups. Our numerical results demonstrated the importance of fluid-pore interaction, pore size, and pore morphology effects in mediating the pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) properties of hydrocarbons. The most remarkable finding of this work was that the saturation pressure predicted from the van der Waals-type adsorption isothermal loop could be elevated or suppressed relative to the bulk phase, as illustrated in the graphical abstract. As the surface energy (i.e., fluid-pore interaction) decreased, the isothermal vapor pressure increased, indicating a greater preference for the fluid to exist in the vapor state. Sufficient reduction of the fluid-pore interactions could even elevate the vapor pressure above that of the bulk fluid.
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- Jiaoyan Li
- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, 1955 North Fremont Avenue, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-2025, United States
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- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, 1955 North Fremont Avenue, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-2025, United States
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- Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, 1955 North Fremont Avenue, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Utah, 50 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Utah, 50 Central Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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Schieber NP, Shirts MR. Configurational mapping significantly increases the efficiency of solid-solid phase coexistence calculations via molecular dynamics: Determining the FCC-HCP coexistence line of Lennard-Jones particles. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:164112. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5080431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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- Natalie P. Schieber
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Minkara MS, Lindsey RK, Noether CO, Venteicher CL, Jamadagni SN, Eike DM, Ghobadi AF, Koenig PH, Siepmann JI. Probing Additive Loading in the Lamellar Phase of a Nonionic Surfactant: Gibbs Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations Using the SDK Force Field. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:8245-8254. [PMID: 29902016 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Understanding solute uptake into soft microstructured materials, such as bilayers and worm-like and spherical micelles, is of interest in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and personal care industries. To obtain molecular-level insight on the effects of solutes loading into a lamellar phase, we utilize the Shinoda-Devane-Klein (SDK) coarse-grained force field in conjunction with configurational-bias Monte Carlo simulations in the osmotic Gibbs ensemble. The lamellar phase is comprised of a bilayer formed by triethylene glycol mono- n-decyl ether (C10E3) surfactants surrounded by water with a 50:50 surfactant/water weight ratio. We study both the unary adsorption isotherm and the effects on bilayer structure and stability caused by n-nonane, 1-hexanol, and ethyl butyrate at several different reduced reservoir pressures. The nonpolar n-nonane molecules load near the center of the bilayer. In contrast, the polar 1-hexanol and ethyl butyrate molecules both load with their polar bead close to the surfactant head groups. Near the center of the bilayer, none of the solute molecules exhibits a significant orientational preference. Solute molecules adsorbed near the polar groups of the surfactant chains show a preference for orientations perpendicular to the interface, and this alignment with the long axis of the surfactant molecules is most pronounced for 1-hexanol. Loading of n-nonane leads to an increase of the bilayer thickness, but does not affect the surface area per surfactant. Loading of polar additives leads to both lateral and transverse swelling. The reduced Henry's law constants of adsorption (expressed as a molar ratio of additive to surfactant per reduced pressure) are 0.23, 1.4, and 14 for n-nonane, 1-hexanol, and ethyl butyrate, respectively, and it appears that the SDK force field significantly overestimates the ethyl butyrate-surfactant interactions.
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- Mona S Minkara
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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- Computational Chemistry, Modeling and Simulation , The Procter & Gamble Company , 8256 Union Centre Blvd , West Chester , Ohio 45069 , United States
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- Computational Chemistry, Modeling and Simulation , The Procter & Gamble Company , 8256 Union Centre Blvd , West Chester , Ohio 45069 , United States
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- Computational Chemistry, Modeling and Simulation , The Procter & Gamble Company , 8256 Union Centre Blvd , West Chester , Ohio 45069 , United States
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- Computational Chemistry, Modeling and Simulation , The Procter & Gamble Company , 8256 Union Centre Blvd , West Chester , Ohio 45069 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Theory Center , University of Minnesota , 207 Pleasant Street SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , University of Minnesota , 421 Washington Avenue SE , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States
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Schieber NP, Dybeck EC, Shirts MR. Using reweighting and free energy surface interpolation to predict solid-solid phase diagrams. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:144104. [PMID: 29655343 DOI: 10.1063/1.5013273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Many physical properties of small organic molecules are dependent on the current crystal packing, or polymorph, of the material, including bioavailability of pharmaceuticals, optical properties of dyes, and charge transport properties of semiconductors. Predicting the most stable crystalline form at a given temperature and pressure requires determining the crystalline form with the lowest relative Gibbs free energy. Effective computational prediction of the most stable polymorph could save significant time and effort in the design of novel molecular crystalline solids or predict their behavior under new conditions. In this study, we introduce a new approach using multistate reweighting to address the problem of determining solid-solid phase diagrams and apply this approach to the phase diagram of solid benzene. For this approach, we perform sampling at a selection of temperature and pressure states in the region of interest. We use multistate reweighting methods to determine the reduced free energy differences between T and P states within a given polymorph and validate this phase diagram using several measures. The relative stability of the polymorphs at the sampled states can be successively interpolated from these points to create the phase diagram by combining these reduced free energy differences with a reference Gibbs free energy difference between polymorphs. The method also allows for straightforward estimation of uncertainties in the phase boundary. We also find that when properly implemented, multistate reweighting for phase diagram determination scales better with the size of the system than previously estimated.
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- Natalie P Schieber
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Bley M, Duvail M, Guilbaud P, Penisson C, Theisen J, Gabriel JC, Dufrêche JF. Molecular simulation of binary phase diagrams from the osmotic equilibrium method: vapour pressure and activity in water–ethanol mixtures. Mol Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1444209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Michael Bley
- Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257, CEA, Université Montpellier, CNRS , Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257, CEA, Université Montpellier, CNRS , Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- Nuclear Energy Division, Research Department on Mining and Fuel Recycling Processes (SPDS/LILA), CEA , Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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- Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257, CEA, Université Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, CEA Grenoble , Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257, CEA, Université Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, CEA Grenoble , Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM), UMR 5257, CEA, Université Montpellier, CNRS , Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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Zhang M, Chen L, Yang H, Ma J. Vapor Liquid Equilibria for Acetic Acid–Acetaldehyde–Crotonaldehyde System: Gibbs Ensemble Molecular Simulation for Pure Components and Binary Systems and NRTL Model Prediction for Ternary System. Ind Eng Chem Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.7b04688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Minhua Zhang
- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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Nilmeier J, Jacobson MP. Monte Carlo Sampling with Hierarchical Move Sets: POSH Monte Carlo. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 5:1968-84. [PMID: 26613140 DOI: 10.1021/ct8005166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We present a new Monte Carlo method for sampling rugged energy landscapes that allows for efficient transitions across sparsely distributed local basins. The trial move consists of two steps. The first step is a large initial trial move, and the second step is a Monte Carlo trajectory generated using smaller trial moves. To maintain detailed balance, a reverse transition probability is estimated along a path that differs from the forward path. Since the forward and reverse transitions are different, we name the algorithm POSH (port out, starboard home) Monte Carlo. The process obeys detailed balance to the extent that the transition probabilities are correctly estimated. There is an optimal range of performance for a given energy landscape, which depends on how sparsely the low energy states of the system are distributed. For simple model systems, adequate precision is obtained over a large range of inner steps settings. Side chain sampling of residues in the binding region of progesterone antibody 1dba are studied, and show that significant improvement over a comparable standard protocol can be obtained using POSH sampling. To compare with experimental data, the phosphopeptide Ace-Gly-Ser-pSer-Ser-Nma is also studied, and the resulting NMR observables compare well with experiment. For the biomolecular systems studied, we show that POSH sampling generates precise distributions using the number of inner steps set up to 20.
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- Jerome Nilmeier
- Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158
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- Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94158
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Oyarzún B, van Westen T, Vlugt TJH. Isotropic-nematic phase equilibria of hard-sphere chain fluids—Pure components and binary mixtures. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:064903. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4907639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Sepehri A, Loeffler TD, Chen B. Improving the efficiency of configurational-bias Monte Carlo: A density-guided method for generating bending angle trials for linear and branched molecules. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:074102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4892640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Aliasghar Sepehri
- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, USA
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Moodley S, Johansson E, Bolton K, Ramjugernath D. Phase-dependent energy cross-parameters in a monatomic binary fluid system. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2012.659180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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