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Roughness Volumes: An Improved RoughMob Concept for Predicting the Increase of Molecular Mobility upon Coarse-Graining

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 126, Issue 20, Pages 3737-3747

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00944

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  1. Collaborative Research Center 146 Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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This article investigates the relationship between coarse-grained molecular models and their parent atomistic models. It is found that the reduced number of degrees of freedom in the coarse-grained model allows for simulation of larger systems and longer time scales, and also results in an artificial increase in mobility. The concept of molecular roughness difference and the region where the roughness acts are introduced in the coarse-grained model, and a correlation between roughness volumes and acceleration factors is established to predict the acceleration factors for hydrocarbon molecules of different sizes and shapes, with different mapping schemes and densities.
The reduced number of degrees of freedom in a coarse-grained molecular model compared to its parent atomistic model not only makes it possible to simulate larger systems for longer time scales but also results in an artificial mobility increase. The RoughMob method [Meinel, M. K. and Mu??ller-Plathe, F. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16, 1411.] linked the acceleration factor of the dynamics to the loss of geometric information upon coarse-graining. Our hypothesis is that coarse-graining a multiatom molecule or group into a single spherical bead smooths the molecular surface and, thus, leads to reduced intermolecular friction. A key parameter is the molecular roughness difference, which is calculated via a numerical comparison of the molecular surfaces of both the atomistic and coarsegrained models. Augmenting the RoughMob method, we add the concept of the region where the roughness acts. This information is contained in four so-called roughness volumes. For 17 systems of homogeneous hydrocarbon fluids, simple one-bead coarse-grained models are derived by the structure-based iterative Boltzmann inversion. They include 13 different homogeneous aliphatic and aromatic molecules and two different mapping schemes. We present a simple way to correlate the roughness volumes to the acceleration factor. The resulting relation is able to a priori predict the acceleration factors for an extended size and shape range of hydrocarbon molecules, with different mapping schemes and different densities.

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