Speaker
Niall English
Description
Electric fields are ubiquitous in nature and their magnitudes in condensed-matter systems are of the typical order of 1 to 3 V/A. The interplay of these intrinsic electric fields in matter with externally-applied ones is a topic of much industrial and academic interest, especially at the nanoscale and in the broad arena of biological systems. In the current contribution, we explore, using water, proteins and biological channels as examples, how both experiment and molecular simulation can be used to see how applied fields at least one or two orders of magnitude lower can influence and manipulate the system response of these biophysical systems to achieve desired outcomes of biological and medical interest.
