Molecular dynamical approach to the conformational transition in peptide nanorings and nanotubes.

We study the conformational transition in d,l-peptide nanorings (PNRs) and nanotubes (PNTs) computationally based on the total energy calculation. Ab initio energy calculation has been carried out to investigate the static states of PNRs, whereas the molecular dynamics (MD) calculation has been employed to examine PNRs' dynamical states. We, then, discuss the time-dependent (TD) feature via the transition process from E-type to B-type and vice versa.