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Mahmut Durmuş is affiliated with Gebze Technical University in Turkey and has an extensive research profile, primarily focused on materials science, medicine, and engineering. Their work concentrates heavily on materials chemistry and intersects with pulmonary and respiratory medicine, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research prominently covers porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, photodynamic therapy studies, and nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics. They also engage in analytical chemistry and sensors, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, luminescence and fluorescent materials, as well as TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells.

Several frequent coauthors collaborated regularly with Durmuş, including Baybars Köksoy, İpek Ömeroğlu, Halit Kantekın, Mücahit Özdemir, and Bahattin Yalçın.

Their publications have appeared often in key scientific venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of Molecular Structure, Polyhedron, New Journal of Chemistry, and Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry.

Recent selected papers exemplify their research themes and include:

  • A new perspective for electrochemical determination of parathion and chlorantraniliprole pesticides via carbon nanotube-based thiophene-ferrocene appended hybrid nanosensor (2021, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical)
  • A synergetic and sensitive physostigmine pesticide sensor using copper complex of 3D zinc (II) phthalocyanine-SWCNT hybrid material (2020, Biosensors and Bioelectronics)
  • Sensitive, simple and fast voltammetric determination of pesticides in juice samples by novel BODIPY-phthalocyanine-SWCNT hybrid platform (2020, Food and Chemical Toxicology)
  • Novel SWCNT-hybrid nanomaterial functionalized with subphthalocyanine substituted asymmetrical zinc (II) phthalocyanine conjugate: Design, synthesis, characterization and sensor properties for pesticides (2020, Sensors and Actuators B Chemical)
  • Spectroscopic, photophysical and photochemical properties of newly metallo-phthalocyanines containing coumarin derivative (2020, Journal of Molecular Structure)

Best Publications

  • Synthetic pathways to water-soluble phthalocyanines and close analogs

    Fabienne Dumoulin;Mahmut Durmuş;Vefa Ahsen;Tebello Nyokong

  • Synthesis, photophysical and photochemical properties of substituted zinc phthalocyanines

    Ilke Gürol;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen;Tebello Nyokong

  • Comparative studies of photophysical and photochemical properties of solketal substituted platinum(II) and zinc(II) phthalocyanine sets

    Yunus Zorlu;Fabienne Dumoulin;Mahmut Durmuş;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen

  • A set of highly water-soluble tetraethyleneglycol-substituted Zn(II) phthalocyanines: synthesis, photochemical and photophysical properties, interaction with plasma proteins and in vitro phototoxicity

    Sinem Tuncel;Fabienne Dumoulin;Juergen Gailer;Melani Sooriyaarachchi

  • Water-soluble cationic gallium(III) and indium(III) phthalocyanines for photodynamic therapy.

    Mahmut Durmuş;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen

  • Peripheral and non-peripheral tetrasubstituted aluminium, gallium and indium phthalocyanines: Synthesis, photophysics and photochemistry

    Huelya Yanik;Duygu Aydin;Mahmut Durmus;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen

  • Synthesis and solvent effects on the electronic absorption and fluorescence spectral properties of substituted zinc phthalocyanines

    Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Synthesis, photophysical and photochemical properties of aryloxy tetra-substituted gallium and indium phthalocyanine derivatives

    Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • The synthesis, fluorescence behaviour and singlet oxygen studies of new water-soluble cationic gallium(III) phthalocyanines

    Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Separation and mesogenic properties of tetraalkoxy-substituted phthalocyanine isomers

    Mahmut Durmuş;Serkan Yeşilot;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen

  • Photophysicochemical and fluorescence quenching studies of benzyloxyphenoxy-substituted zinc phthalocyanines

    Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Water-soluble quaternized mercaptopyridine-substituted zinc-phthalocyanines: Synthesis, photophysical, photochemical and bovine serum albumin binding properties

    Mahmut Durmuş;Hanifi Yaman;Cem Göl;Vefa Ahsen;Vefa Ahsen

  • Photochemistry, photophysics and nonlinear optical parameters of phenoxy and tert-butylphenoxy substituted indium(III) phthalocyanines

    Vongani Chauke;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Modulation of the electronic and spectroscopic properties of Zn(II) phthalocyanines by their substitution pattern

    Sevinc Z. Topal;Ümit İşci;Ufuk Kumru;Devrim Atilla

  • Solvent and central metal effects on the photophysical and photochemical properties of 4-benzyloxybenzoxy substituted phthalocyanines

    Ece Tuğba Saka;Mahmut Durmuş;Halit Kantekin

  • Synthesis, photophysical and photochemical properties of tetra-and octa-substituted gallium and indium phthalocyanines

    Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Synthesis and photodynamic potential of tetra- and octa-triethyleneoxysulfonyl substituted zinc phthalocyanines

    Devrim Atilla;Nil Saydan;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Ayşe Gül Gürek

  • Synthesis, photophysical and photochemical studies on long chain zinc phthalocyanine derivatives

    Abimbola Ogunsipe;Abimbola Ogunsipe;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Devrim Atilla;Ayşe Gül Gürek

  • Synthesis, photophysical and photochemical studies of new water-soluble indium(III) phthalocyanines

    Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • Novel gallium(III) phthalocyanine derivatives – Synthesis, photophysics and photochemistry

    Vongani Chauke;Abimbola Ogunsipe;Abimbola Ogunsipe;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Tebello Nyokong

  • The synthesis and electrochemical behaviour of water soluble manganese phthalocyanines: Anion radical versus Mn(I) species

    Nthapo Sehlotho;Mahmut Durmuş;Mahmut Durmuş;Vefa Ahsen;Tebello Nyokong

Frequent Co-Authors

Vefa Ahsen
Vefa Ahsen Gebze Technical University
Tebello Nyokong
Tebello Nyokong Rhodes University
Mohamed E. El-Khouly
Mohamed E. El-Khouly Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
Dominique Luneau
Dominique Luneau Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu
Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu Fırat University
Bader Ghanem
Bader Ghanem King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Jacques Pécaut
Jacques Pécaut Grenoble Alpes University
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
Fethi Bedioui
Fethi Bedioui Chimie ParisTech

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