Issue 3, 2021

Development of coarse-grained force field for alcohols: an efficient meta-multilinear interpolation parameterization algorithm

Abstract

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics are powerful tools to access a mesoscopic phenomenon and simultaneously record microscopic details, but currently the CG force fields (FFs) are still limited by low parameterization efficiency and poor accuracy especially for polar molecules. In this work, we developed a Meta-Multilinear Interpolation Parameterization (Meta-MIP) algorithm to optimize the CG FFs for alcohols. This algorithm significantly boosts parameterization efficiency by constructing on-the-fly local databases to cover the global optimal parameterization path. In specific, an alcohol molecule is mapped to a heterologous model composed of an OH bead and a hydrocarbon portion which consists of alkane beads representing two to four carbon atoms. Non-bonded potentials are described by soft Morse functions that have no tail-corrections but can still retain good continuities at truncation distance. Nearly all of the properties in terms of density, heat of vaporization, surface tension, and solvation free energy for alcohols predicted by the current FFs deviate from experimental values by less than 7%. This Meta-MIP algorithm can be readily applied to force field development for a wide variety of molecules or functional groups, in many situations including but not limited to CG FFs.

Graphical abstract: Development of coarse-grained force field for alcohols: an efficient meta-multilinear interpolation parameterization algorithm

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Oct 2020
Accepted
31 Dec 2020
First published
02 Jan 2021

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021,23, 1956-1966

Development of coarse-grained force field for alcohols: an efficient meta-multilinear interpolation parameterization algorithm

M. Wan, J. Song, Y. Yang, L. Gao and W. Fang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 1956 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP05503D

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