Effect of Glutamate on the Solvation of Li Doped Carbon Nanotube

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Abstract

Due to the application of nanotubes in biological systems, low solubility of these nano materials is an important problem in this field of nanotechnology. Therefore, study of the solvation of bio-applicable nanotubes was the aim of this research. Li doped carbon nanotube and its glutamate complex were first modeled by quantum mechanical calculations and then Monte Carlo simulations were applied to study their solubility in water. The solvation free energy computations show that the interaction of Li doped carbon nanotube with glutamate amino acid, increase its solvation in aqueous solution. The results were also indicated that electrostatic interactions play a distinctive contribution in the solvation of nanotube after interaction with glutamate.

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