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<p><b>Volume 1</b></p> <p>Preface xiii</p> <p>1 Introduction to the Concept, History, and Significance of Peptide Selfassembly and Materials 1<br /><i>Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p>2 Peptides: Molecular Basis, Secondary Structures, and Synthesis Methods 5<br /><i>Luyang Zhao, Xiaokang Ren, and Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p>3 Principles of Peptide Self-assembly and Material Design Rules 23<br /><i>Chengqian Yuan, Shuai Cao, and Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p>4 Molecular Simulations and Computational Chemistry of Peptide Self-assembly 51<br /><i>Peng Zhou, Hai Xu, and Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p>5 Stimuli-responsive Structural Transformations of Peptide Supramolecular Gels 81<br /><i>Simona Bianco and Dave J. Adams</i></p> <p>6 Self-assembling Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes: Methods and Characterization 109<br /><i>Ángel L. Fuentes de Arriba and Juan R. Granja</i></p> <p>7 Design and Control of Self-sorting Patterns of Supramolecular Peptide Nanofibers 143<br /><i>Keisuke Nakamura and Itaru Hamachi</i></p> <p>8 Protein-decorated Artificial Viral Capsids Self-assembled from β-Annulus Peptides 167<br /><i>Kazunori Matsuura</i></p> <p>9 Peptide Assemblies on Surfaces: A Study Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 185<br /><i>Lanlan Yu, Yanlian Yang, Chen Wang, and Chenxuan Wang</i></p> <p>10 Molecular Assembly of Cyclic Dipeptide: Structure to Function 221<br /><i>Debasis Ghosh and Thimmaiah Govindaraju</i></p> <p>11 Minimalistic Peptide Assemblies for Sustainable Optoelectronics 241<br /><i>Yan Zhang, Jiahao Zhang, Junbai Li, Ehud Gazit, and Kai Tao</i></p> <p>12 Peptide-based Coacervates: A Biomimetic Protocell 263<br /><i>Manzar Abbas</i></p> <p>13 Water-induced Peptide Self-assembly and Its Function 283<br /><i>Wei Fan, Chengqian Yuan, and Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p><b>Volume 2</b></p> <p>Preface xiii</p> <p>14 Functional peptide coatings 301<br /><i>Xingcen liu and Junbai li</i></p> <p>15 Self-assembling Peptide Amyloids: From Structure to Function in Nanotechnology 335<br /><i>Hao Kong and Gang Wei</i></p> <p>16 Piezoelectric Self-assembling Peptides for Engineering Applications 367<br /><i>Haoran Wu, Sarah Guerin, Syed A. M. Tofail, Rusen Yang, Ehud Gazit, Damien Thompson, and Kai Tao</i></p> <p>17 Peptide-based Hydrogels for Soft Electronic Devices and Wearable Biosensors 393<br /><i>Sen Liang, Yajie Tian, and Shuo Bai</i></p> <p>18 Self-assembled Peptide-based Biocatalyst 421<br /><i>Jingjing Han, Xuehai Yan, and Juyoung Yoon</i></p> <p>19 Short Peptide Supramolecular Hydrogels for Antimicrobial Applications 449<br /><i>Xuzhi Hu, Haoning Gong, Mingrui Liao, and Jian Ren Lu</i></p> <p>20 Supramolecular Peptide-based Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Fibrosis 479<br /><i>Jikang Liu and Qianli Zou</i></p> <p>21 Self-assembly of Peptides and Chromophores for Design of Theranostic Nanodrugs and Cancer Precision Therapy 505<br /><i>Rui Chang, Ruirui Xing, and Xuehai Yan</i></p> <p>22 Self-assembling Bioactive Peptides for Supramolecular Cancer Immunotherapy 531<br /><i>Shukun Li, Xuehai Yan, and Jan van Hest</i></p> <p>23 Self-assembled Stimuli-responsive Nanomaterials Using Peptide Amphiphiles for Targeting Delivery of Drugs 563<br /><i>Nayeong Jeon, Ilhyung Choi, and Eunji Lee</i></p> <p>References 609</p> <p>Index 629</p>

<p><i><b>Xuehai Yan</b> 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).</i>

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