Artificial Protein and Peptide Nanofibers

Gang Wei received his Ph.D from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2007. Following the doctoral studies, he worked as the Alexander-von-Humboldt (2007) and Carl-Zeiss (2009) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. Since 2012, he has worked as a senior researcher and group leader in Hybrid Materials Interfaces Group at the University of Bremen, Germany. Since Feb 2018, he has been appointed as a guest professor at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include supramolecular self-assembly, biomimetic materials, two-dimensional nanomaterials, sensors and biosensors, as well as single molecule force spectroscopy. Up to now, he has published 100+ peer-reviewed papers in the journals like Chem. Soc. Rev., Prog. Polym. Sci., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale, Chem. Commun., J. Mater. Chem. B, and others.

Section A Fabrication and characterizations of artificial protein and peptide nanofibers 1 Supramolecular self-assembly: A facile way to fabricate protein and peptide nanomaterials Luyang Zhao, Xuehai Yan 2 Self-assembly formation of peptide and protein nanofibers on surfaces and at interfaces Shuwei Sun, Zhiqiang Su, Gang Wei 3 Fabrication of amyloid nanofiber matrices by electrospinning Devina Jaiswal, Sara Katebifar, Swetha Rudraiah, Sangamesh G. Kumbar 4 Novel protein and peptide nanofibrous structures via supramolecular co-assembly Christian Helbing, Klaus D. Jandt 5 Characterization techniques of protein and peptide nanofibers: Self-assembly kinetics Gang Wei Section B Enhanced functions of nanofibers by sequence design and modification 6 Protein synthesis and characterization Shobhit Kadakeri, Michael R. Arul, Rosalie Bordett, Nithyadevi Duraisamy, Hemantkumar Naik, Swetha Rudraiah

7 Design of functional peptide nanofibers based on amyloid motifs Wenfeng Wei, Zhiqiang Su 8 Design of amphiphilic peptide nanofibers Mustafa O. Guler 9 Nanofiber matrices of protein mimetic bioactive peptides for biomedical applications Allen Zennifer, Muthu Parkkavi Sekar, Anuradha Subramanian, Swaminathan Sethuraman 10 Synergetic integration of computer-aided design, experimental synthesis, and self-assembly for the rational design of peptide/protein nanofibrils Ke Zheng, Jing Ren, Yawen Liu, Shengjie Ling 11 Composite nanofiber matrices for biomedical applications Ramya Dhandapani, Amrutha Manigandan, Swaminathan Sethuraman, Anuradha Subramanian 12 Nanofiber-based hydrogels and aerogels Li Sun, Aiguo Wu Section C Related applications of artificial protein and peptide nanofibers 13 Protein and peptide nanostructures for drug and gene delivery Uma Maheswari Krishnan 14 Protein andpeptide nanofiber matrices for the regenerative medicine Seyed Mohammad Mir, Aneela Anwar, Ibrahim Dulijan, Alok Kumar, Xiaojun Yu 15 Fibrous scaffolds for bone tissue engineering Jennifer