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Theoretical Characterization of Structural Disorder in the Tetramer Model Structure of Eumelanin
Chemical Physics · Submitted 25 Feb 2019
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The authors' main claim In this work, we implement a piecewise Ising Model to predict formation enthalpies of Eumelanin single and double tetramers, and demonstrate its superior predictive and generalizable capabilities.
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Eumelanin is regarded to be an attractive candidate material for biomedical applications. Despite many theoretical studies exploring the structure of eumelanin, an exact mapping of the energetic landscape of the very large phase space of eumelanin is still elusive. In this work, we implement a piecewise Ising Model to predict formation enthalpies of Eumelanin single and double tetramers, and demonstrate its superior predictive and generalizable capabilities. We believe this model will prove very useful in theoretically characterizing the many unique properties attributed to its disorder. The modular nature of the predictive Ising model built up in this work is well-suited for analysis and characterization of a larger phase space of eumelanin polymers, including hexamers and octomers, as well as larger stacked structures, such as potential triple and quadruple eumelanin tetramers. Absorbance data can be incorporated with population-wide predictions of polymer abundance to produce weighted-average predictions of broadband absorbance of bulk eumelanin.
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| s0 | Eumelanin is regarded to be an attractive candidate material for biomedical applications. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | asserted 0.58 |
| s1 | Despite many theoretical studies exploring the structure of eumelanin, an exact mapping of the energetic landscape of the very large phase space of eumelanin is still elusive. | gap 0.99 | 0.05 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | In this work, we implement a piecewise Ising Model to predict formation enthalpies of Eumelanin single and double tetramers, and demonstrate its superior predictive and generalizable capabilities. | contribution 0.88 | 0.96 | 0.58 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | We believe this model will prove very useful in theoretically characterizing the many unique properties attributed to its disorder. | interpretation 0.88 | 0.15 | 0.18 | hedged possibility 0.85 |
| s4 | The modular nature of the predictive Ising model built up in this work is well-suited for analysis and characterization of a larger phase space of eumelanin polymers, including hexamers and octomers, as well as larger stacked structures, such as potential triple and quadruple eumelanin tetramers. | future work 0.68 | 0.56 | 0.11 | asserted 0.91 |
| s5 | Absorbance data can be incorporated with population-wide predictions of polymer abundance to produce weighted-average predictions of broadband absorbance of bulk eumelanin. | method 0.48 | 0.34 | 0.08 | hedged possibility 0.50 |
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Eumelanin is regarded to be an attractive candidate material for biomedical applications. Despite many theoretical studies exploring the structure of eumelanin, an exact mapping of the energetic landscape of the very large phase space of eumelanin is still elusive. In this work, we implement a piecewise Ising Model to predict formation enthalpies of Eumelanin single and double tetramers, and demonstrate its superior predictive and generalizable capabilities. We believe this model will prove very useful in theoretically characterizing the many unique properties attributed to its disorder. The modular nature of the predictive Ising model built up in this work is well-suited for analysis and characterization of a larger phase space of eumelanin polymers, including hexamers and octomers, as well as larger stacked structures, such as potential triple and quadruple eumelanin tetramers. Absorbance data can be incorporated with population-wide predictions of polymer abundance to produce weighted-average predictions of broadband absorbance of bulk eumelanin.
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