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Overview

An-Ping Zeng is affiliated with the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within biochemistry, molecular biology, and engineering, with a significant focus on topics related to microbial metabolic engineering, biofuel production, enzyme catalysis, and organic electronics.

The primary fields of study for An-Ping Zeng include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Engineering

The subfields of their work encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biochemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

Key topics An-Ping Zeng has contributed to involve:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Biochemical Acid Research Studies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Among recent scientific papers, notable works include:

  • "Approaching 18% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics with wide bandgap polymer donor and well compatible Y6: Y6-1O as acceptor," 2020, National Science Review
  • "A highly crystalline non-fullerene acceptor enabling efficient indoor organic photovoltaics with high EQE and fill factor," 2021, Joule
  • "Deciphering the Role of Chalcogen-Containing Heterocycles in Nonfullerene Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells," 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • "A Chlorinated Donor Polymer Achieving High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with a Wide Range of Polymer Molecular Weight," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Heteroheptacene-based acceptors with thieno[3,i,2-b]pyrrole yield high-performance polymer solar cells," 2022, National Science Review

Frequent collaborators in the research community include Jie Ren, Chijian Zhang, Chengwei Ma, Jinglei Nie, and He Yan.

An-Ping Zeng has published extensively in several scientific journals and venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Engineering in Life Sciences
  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemie Ingenieur Technik

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a title under Springer Science+Business Media: Biosurfactants for the Biobased Economy, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

    Herman J. Pel;Johannes H. De Winde;Johannes H. De Winde;David B. Archer;Paul S. Dyer

  • Microbial production of 1,3-propanediol.

    H. Biebl;K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Reconstruction of metabolic networks from genome data and analysis of their global structure for various organisms.

    Hongwu Ma;An Ping Zeng

  • Bulk chemicals from biotechnology: the case of 1,3-propanediol production and the new trends.

    An-Ping Zeng;Hanno Biebl

  • The connectivity structure, giant strong component and centrality of metabolic networks

    Hong-Wu Ma;An-Ping Zeng

  • Present state and perspective of downstream processing of biologically produced 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol

    Zhi-Long Xiu;An-Ping Zeng

  • Multiple product inhibition and growth modeling of clostridium butyricum and klebsiella pneumoniae in glycerol fermentation

    A.-P. Zeng;A. Ross;H. Biebl;C. Tag

  • Is autoinducer-2 a universal signal for interspecies communication: a comparative genomic and phylogenetic analysis of the synthesis and signal transduction pathways.

    Jibin Sun;Rolf Daniel;Irene Wagner-Döbler;An-Ping Zeng

  • High concentration and productivity of 1,3-propanediol from continuous fermentation of glycerol by Klebsiella pneumoniae

    K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Microbial production of diols as platform chemicals: recent progresses.

    An-Ping Zeng;Wael Sabra

  • Fermentation of glycerol to 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae

    H. Biebl;A.-P. Zeng;K. Menzel;W.-D. Deckwer

  • An extended transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli and analysis of its hierarchical structure and network motifs

    Hong Wu Ma;Bharani Kumar;Uta Ditges;Florian Gunzer

  • Effect of oxygen on formation and structure of Azotobacter vinelandii alginate and its role in protecting nitrogenase.

    W. Sabra;A.-P. Zeng;H. Lünsdorf;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Bacterial alginate: physiology, product quality and process aspects.

    W. Sabra;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • A Kinetic Model for Substrate and Energy Consumption of Microbial Growth under Substrate-Sufficient Conditions

    A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Hierarchical structure and modules in the Escherichia coli transcriptional regulatory network revealed by a new top-down approach

    Hong-Wu Ma;Jan Buer;An-Ping Zeng

  • Pathway analysis of glycerol fermentation by Klebsiella pneumoniae: Regulation of reducing equivalent balance and product formation

    A.-P. Zeng;H. Biebl;H. Schlieker;W.-D. Deckwer

  • Kinetic, dynamic, and pathway studies of glycerol metabolism by Klebsiella pneumoniae in anaerobic continuous culture: III. Enzymes and fluxes of glycerol dissimilation and 1,3-propanediol formation.

    K. Ahrens;K. Menzel;A.-P. Zeng;W.-D. Deckwer

  • A de novo NADPH generation pathway for improving lysine production of Corynebacterium glutamicum by rational design of the coenzyme specificity of glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.

    Rajesh Reddy Bommareddy;Zhen Chen;Sugima Rappert;An-Ping Zeng

  • Decomposition of metabolic network into functional modules based on the global connectivity structure of reaction graph

    Hong-Wu Ma;Xue-Ming Zhao;Ying-Jin Yuan;An-Ping Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf-Dieter Deckwer
Wolf-Dieter Deckwer Technische Universität Braunschweig
Zhilong Xiu
Zhilong Xiu Dalian University of Technology
Seraphim Papanikolaou
Seraphim Papanikolaou Agricultural University of Athens
Udo Reichl
Udo Reichl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig
Ying-Jin Yuan
Ying-Jin Yuan Tianjin University
Elmar Heinzle
Elmar Heinzle Saarland University
Jan Buer
Jan Buer University of Duisburg-Essen
Wei Shou Hu
Wei Shou Hu University of Minnesota
Rudi Balling
Rudi Balling University of Bonn

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