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. 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.

• 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 electrospinningDevina Jaiswal, Sara Katebifar, Swetha Rudraiah,  Sangamesh G. Kumbar 4 Novel protein and peptide nanofibrous structures  via supramolecular co-assembly Christian Helbing, Klaus D. Jandt5 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