Supplementary Information: Influence of nanoscale surface

curvature of rutile on fibronectin adsorption by atomistic

simulations

Xinyu Wang1, Zheng Li1, Hongxia Li2, Shilun Ruan1, and Junfeng Gu1,*

1State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Department of

Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China

2School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023,

China

*Please address correspondence and requests for reprints to:

Dr. Junfeng Gu

Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian

116024, China.

Phone: 86-411-84708390

Fax: 86-411-84708390

Email: jfgu@dlut.edu.cn

Fig. S1 The cosine curves of orientation angle of Direction-1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12

Fig. S2 The energy curves (a), minimum distance curve and COM distance curve (b)

between FN-III10 and rutile during the simulation of Direciton-10

Fig. S3 The total interaction energy between FN-III10 and rutile during the simulation

of Direciton-2, 6, 7, 9 and 10

Fig. S4 The energy curves (a), minimum distance curve (b) between FN-III10 and rutile during the simulation of Direciton-2

Fig. S5 The total interaction energy curves during the adsorption simulations of “side-on” orientation of FN-III10 on rutile with concave surface