Peptide Self-Assembly and Engineering

VOLUME 1 Introduction Peptides: molecular basis, secondary structures and synthesis methods Principles of peptide self-assembly and material design rules Molecular simulation and computational chemistry of peptide self-assembly Stimuli-responsive structural transformations of peptide supramolecular gels Self-assembling cyclic peptide nanotubes: methods and characterization Design and control of self-sorting patterns of supramolecular peptide nanofibers Protein-decorated artificial viral capsids self-assembled from ß-annulus peptides Peptide assemblies on surfaces: a study using scanning tunneling microscopy Molecular assembly of cyclic dipeptide: structure to function Minimalistic peptide assemblies for sustainable optoelectronics Peptide-based coacervates: a biomimetic protocell Water-induced peptide self-assembly and its function VOLUME 2 Functional peptide coatings Self-assembling peptide amyloids: from structure to function in nanotechnology Piezoelectric self-assembling peptides for engineering applications Peptide-based hydrogels for soft electronic devices and wearable biosensors Self-assembled peptide-based biocatalyst Short peptide supramolecular hydrogels for antimicrobial applications Supramolecular peptide-based nanomaterials for the treatment of fibrosis Self-assembly of peptides and chromophores for design of theranostic nanodrugs and cancer precision therapy Self-assembling bioactive peptides for supramolecular cancer immunotherapy Self-assembled stimuli-responsive nanomaterials using peptide amphiphiles for targeting delivery of drugs

Xuehai Yan is Professor and Principle Investigator at the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is the Vice Director at the State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering and the Center of Mesoscience, IPE, CAS. He has been awarded National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Outstanding Young Scholar (2015) and NFSC Distinguished Young Scholar (2020).