Artificial Protein and Peptide Nanofibers. Design, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications. Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials

Table of Contents

�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 and peptide 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 Moy, Apurva Limaye, Treena Livingston Arinzeh

16 Assembled peptides for biomimetic catalysis Mengfan Wang, Wei Qi

17 New protein-based smart materials� Lei Wang, Xin Huang

18 Nanofibers for soft-tissue engineering� Sama Abdulmalik, Sara Katebifar, Jonathan Nip, Laurie Yousman,� Paulina Szarejko, Jiana Baker, Swetha Rudraiah,� Sangamesh G. Kumbar

Authors

Gang Wei Group Leader and Senior Researcher, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. 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. Sangamesh G. Kum bar University of Connecticut Health Center, USA. Dr. Kumbar is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. His research is focused on synthesis and characterization of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. These polymeric materials namely polysaccharides, polyphosphazenes, polyanhydrides, polyesters as well as blends of two or more of the polymeric materials and composites combining the polymeric materials with ceramics in the form of 3-dimentional porous structures will serve as scaffolds for variety of tissue engineering applications. Dr. Kumbar is an active member of Society for Biomaterials (SFB), Controlled Release Society (CRS), Materials Research Society (MRS) and Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS). Dr. Kumbar is serving as a reviewer for more than 25 journals in the field of biomaterials, drug delivery and tissue engineering. He has recently edited a book "Natural and Synthetic Biomedical Polymers� Elsevier Science & Technology, 2014- ISBN: 978-0-12-396983-5. He is also on the Editorial Board of more than 7 journals in the area of his expertise including Journal of Biomedical Materials Research-Part B, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, and Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology.