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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2017 Mar 13;121(15):3764–3776. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b11378

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Optimization triangle for membrane-mimicking solvents and the atomic mapping used here to create Simple Carbon Solvent Methane (SCSM) and Simple Carbon Solvent Ethane (SCSE). (A) Optimization triangle for highly mobile membrane mimics, which should be liquid, hydrophobic, and small. Molecules that satisfy two of the criteria are represented on the edges of the triangle. (B) Atomic mapping used for individual particles in united-atom lipid acyl chains (top, grey), compared with the SCSM (middle, green) and SCSE (bottom, blue) solvents, where each particle represents a distinct methanediyl group.