Marcelo D. Polêto

@mdpoleto.bsky.social

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Computational Biochemist @uspoficial.bsky.social - Molecular simulations | Drude Polarizable FF | Enzyme engineering | Sustainability ♻️. Trying to grow my own agroforestry system 🌳🫒. he/him 🇧🇷 https://mdpoleto.github.io/

Picture of the campus Viçosa of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa

A screenshot of a CAPTCHA to access ACS journals.

Video of Iguaçu Falls (the Brazilian side). Bright sunny day and the falls roar.

Denethor, from Lord of the Rings, trying to eat a tomato, as a reference for Elon Musk being incapable of seeing his own twisted perceptions of reality

Front cover of the journal ACS Macromolecules. A single chain of PET polymer on the left. An amorphous phase of PET embedded in a box of transparent water surface on the right. A crystal PET unit on the bottom right, with a protein bound to it. PET atoms are shown in green. Lightnings are falling from a cloudy sky above. The word MACROMOLECULES in white on the center top of the page.

Brazillian-style barbecue

Simulation box of an amorphous slab of PET polymer chains in water in the background. A crystal PET film with a protein bound to its surface. A single PET polymer chain in the foreground. PET molecules are shown in green. Blue lightning are hitting the ground.

Hand holding white bottle with a funny drawing of a bacteria eating a plastic bottle