Figure 1. Coarse grained structure of skin lipid molecules, water and different AuNPs.

CG molecular structures of individual components CER, CHOL, FFA of skin lipid matrix, water and thiol coated gold nanoparticles of different sizes used in the simulation. Images/snapshots were created using the VMD software⁵⁹. The sn1 and sn2 represents the chains of CER. Images are not drawn to scale.