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. 2014 May 14;7(5):3855–3866. doi: 10.3390/ma7053855

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Sketch of the receptor, lipid membrane and nanoparticle (with ligands) used in the simulations. The receptor is named R(Nm)Tr(Nt), in which Nm stands for the number of polymer chains composing the receptor and Nt is the number of hydrophobic beads in each chain. Red: active beads at the two ends of a receptor (i.e., interaction sites with ligands, Hr); dark grey: beads composing the backbone of a receptor chain (Tr); yellow: ligands on a nanoparticle surface (L); blue: nanoparticle (P); green: lipid heads (H); grey: lipid tails (T).