Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0053630

Zusammenfassung

Ion channels are of enormous importance for living cells, but simulation and understanding of their regulation is still a challenging and widely open task. Reasons are the enormous complexity of the molecular details, the long time scale of the underlying processes, and the long range character of the electrostatic interactions requiring large system sizes. Similar issues appear for synthetic ion channels (nanopores in polymer membranes), which have a strong technological potential. In the proposed project the simulation of biological and synthetic ion channels is tackled by modern mu...