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The study and modeling of
dendrimers, and their drug loading capacityA Molecular Docking Study J. Biophys.
P. V. G. M. Rathnayake, B. G. C. M. Gunathunge, P. N. Wimalasiri, D. N. Karunaratne, R. J. K. U. Ranatunga. (2017). Trends in the Binding of Cell Penetrating Peptides to siRNA:. A Molecular Docking Study J. Biophys., 2017: 1059216.
Curr. Pharm. Des.
D. N. Karunaratne, M. Jafari, R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, A. Siriwardhana. (2015). Natural Car-riers for siRNA Delivery. Curr. Pharm. Des. , 21: 4529–4540.
Biophy. J.
M. J. Shoura, R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, S. A. Harris, S. O. Nielsen, S. D. Levene. (2014). Contribution of Fluorophore Dynamics and Solvation to Resonant Energy Transfer in Protein-DNA Complexes: A Molecular-Dynamics Study. Biophy. J., 197: 700–710.
Macromol.
J. Hao, Y. Cheng, R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, S. Senevirathne, M. C. Biewer, S. O. Nielsen, Q. Wang, and M. C. Stefan. (2013). A Combined Experimental and Computational Study of the Substituent Effect on Micellar Behavior of γ-Substituted Thermoresponsive Amphiphilic Poly( -caprolactone)s. Macromol., 46: 4829–4838.
Soft Matter
R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, C. T. Nguyen, B. A. Wilson, W. Shinoda, S. O. Nielsen. (2011). Molecular Dynamics Study of Nanoparticles and Non-Ionic Surfactant at an oil/water interface. Soft Matter , 7: 6942-6952.
Nanosci.
R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, and S. O. Nielsen. (2011). Application of a Continuum Mean Field Approximation to Fullerenes in Lipid Bilayers. Curr. . Nanosci., 7: 667-673.
J. Phys. Chem.
R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, R. J. B. Kalescky, C.-c. Chiu, and S. O. Nielsen. (2010). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Surfactant Functionalized Nanoparticles in the Vicinity of an Oil/Water Interface. J. Phys. Chem., C 114,: 12151-12157.
J. Chem. Phys.
C.-c. Chiu, R. J. K. U. Ranatunga, D. T. Flores, D. V. Perez, P. B. Moore, W. Shinoda, and S. O. Nielsen. (2010). A Mean Field Approach for Computing Solid-Liquid Surface Tension for Nanoscale Interfaces. J. Chem. Phys., 132: 054706.