Christopher G. Gray

Research Topics:

Biophysics; simulations of ion channels and peptide-membrane interactions; molecular physics; molecular liquids, mixtures, and interfaces, molecular spectra, molecular chaos. Theoretical physics; new classical and semiclassical variational principles. Applied physics; supercritical fluid extraction, surfactant monolayers.

List of Publications:

1. Vivcharuk V., Tomberli B., Tolokh I.S and Gray C.G., Prediction of Binding Free Energy for Adsorption of Antimicrobial Peptide Lactoferricin B on POPC Membrane, Phys. Rev. E, 2008, vol. 77, p. 031913.
2. C.G. Gray, Principle of least action, Scholarpedia, 2009, 4(12):8291
3. Lee-Dadswell G.R., Nickel B.G. and Gray C.G., Detailed Examination of Transport coefficients in Cubic-Plus-Quartic Oscillator Chains, J. Stat. Phys., 2008, vol. 132, p. 1-33.
4. Vivcharuk V., Tomberli B., Tolokh i.S. and Gray C.G., Binding Free Energy and Counterion-Release for Adsorption of Antimicrobial Peptide Lactoferricin B with POPG Lipid Bilayer, Phys. Rev. E, 2009, vol. 80, p. 031911
5. deHaan, H.W., Tolokh, I.S., Goldman, S. and Gray, C.G., Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Calculation of the Conductance of the KcsA Potassium Ion Channel, Phys. Rev. E, 2006, vol. 74, p. 030905.
6. Gray, C.G., Karl, G. and Novikov, V.A., Quadrupolar Contact Fields: Theory and Applications, Am. J. Phys. 2009, vol. 77, p. 807-817
7. Gray, C.G. and Taylor, E.F., When Action is Not Least, Amer. J. Phys., 2007, vol. 75, p. 434-458
8. Tolokh, I.S., Goldman, S. and Gray, C.G., Unified Modeling of Conductance Kinetics for Low- and High-Conductance Potassium Ion Channels, Phys. Rev. E., 2006, vol. 74, p. 011902.
9. Lee-Dadswell, G.R., Nickel, B.G. and Gray, C.G., Thermal Conductivity and Bulk Viscosity in a Quartic Oscillator Chain, Phys. Rev. E., 2005, vol. 72, p. 031202.
10. Alesi, N., Tolokh, I.S., Goldman, S. and Gray, C.G., Simulation Study of N2 Overtone Solvent Shifts Using Improved Potentials, Molec. Phys., 2005, vol. 103, p. 2381-2396.
11. Tolokh, I.S., Tolokh, I.I., Cho, H.C., D'Avanzo, N., Bacx, P.H., Goldman, S. and Gray, C.G., Non-Michaelis-Menten Kinetics Model for Conductance of Low-Conductance Potassium Ion Channels, Phys. Rev. E., 2005, vol. 71, p. 021912.
12. Gray, C.G., Karl, G. and Novikov, V., Progress in Classical and Quantum Variational Principles, Reports on Progress in Physics, 2004, vol. 67, p. 159-208.