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Mihail Barboiu is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research activity spans across several interdisciplinary areas within materials science and chemistry, with particular focus on materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, organic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

Their publication record includes research published in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ChemPlusChem

Barboiu's frequently addressed topics within their scientific work encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques

Their major research papers illustrate considerable activity in the fields of artificial ion channels, biomimetic membranes, and self-assembling materials, including:

  • Self-Assembled Artificial Ion-Channels toward Natural Selection of Functions, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Biomimetic artificial water channel membranes for enhanced desalination, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Light-Driven Molecular Motors Boost the Selective Transport of Alkali Metal Ions through Phospholipid Bilayers, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Artificial Water Channels: Towards Biomimetic Membranes for Desalination, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Biobased pH-responsive and self-healing hydrogels prepared from O-carboxymethyl chitosan and a 3-dimensional dynamer as cartilage engineering scaffold, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers

The scientist has collaborated frequently with peers in their field. Their most common coauthors are:

  • Arie van der Lee
  • Shao-Ping Zheng
  • Ji-Jun Jiang
  • Liya Dai
  • Dan Dumitrescu

Their work predominantly focuses on the synthesis and characterization of supramolecular structures and artificial channels, relevant for applications in selective ion transport, desalination membranes, and biomaterials engineering. This integration of molecular design with functional membrane materials positions their research at the convergence of chemistry, materials science, and biomedical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic chemical devices: modulation of contraction/extension molecular motion by coupled-ion binding/pH change-induced structural switching

    Mihail Barboiu;Jean-Marie Lehn

  • Imidazole-Quartet Water and Proton Dipolar Channels†

    Yann Le Duc;Mathieu Michau;Arnaud Gilles;Valerie Gence

  • Self-Assembled Artificial Ion-Channels toward Natural Selection of Functions

    Shao-Ping Zheng;Shao-Ping Zheng;Li-Bo Huang;Li-Bo Huang;Zhanhu Sun;Mihail Barboiu;Mihail Barboiu

  • Biomimetic artificial water channel membranes for enhanced desalination

    Maria Di Vincenzo;Alberto Tiraferri;Valentina-Elena Musteata;Stefan Chisca

  • Columnar self-assembled ureido crown ethers: an example of ion-channel organization in lipid bilayers.

    Adinela Cazacu;Christine Tong;Arie van der Lee;Thomas M Fyles

  • Carbonic anhydrase activators. Part 14. Syntheses of mono and bis pyridinium salt derivatives of 2-amino-5-(2-aminoethyl)- and 2-amino-5-(3-aminopropyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazole and their interaction with isozyme II

    CT Supuran;M Barboiu;C Luca;E Pop

  • From Natural to Bioassisted and Biomimetic Artificial Water Channel Systems

    Mihail Barboiu;Arnaud Gilles

  • Hybrid organic-inorganic membranes with specific transport properties: Applications in separation and sensors technologies

    Christian Guizard;Alain Bac;Mihail Barboiu;Nadine Hovnanian

  • Self-assembly, structure, and dynamic interconversion of metallosupramolecular architectures generated by Pb(II) binding-induced unfolding of a helical ligand.

    Mihail Barboiu;Gavin Vaughan;Roland Graff;Jean-Marie Lehn

  • Salt-Excluding Artificial Water Channels Exhibiting Enhanced Dipolar Water and Proton Translocation.

    Erol Licsandru;Istvan Kocsis;Yue Xiao Shen;Samuel Murail

  • Dynamic covalent polymers for biomedical applications

    Yan Zhang;Yunchuan Qi;Sébastien Ulrich;Mihail Barboiu

  • Constitutional Dynamic Materials—Toward Natural Selection of Function

    Yan Zhang;Mihail Barboiu

  • Dynamic Chemical Devices: Generation of Reversible Extension/Contraction Molecular Motion by Ion-Triggered Single/Double Helix Interconversion

    Mihail Barboiu;Gavin Vaughan;Nathalie Kyritsakas;Jean-Marie Lehn

  • Imino-chitosan biodynamers

    Luminita Marin;Bogdan Simionescu;Mihail Barboiu

  • Functional G‐Quartet Macroscopic Membrane Films

    Carole Arnal-Hérault;Andreea Pasc;Mathieu Michau;Didier Cot

  • Self-Organized Heteroditopic Macrocyclic Superstructures

    Mihail Barboiu;Gavin Vaughan;Arie van der Lee

  • Artificial water channels.

    Mihail Barboiu

  • Highly Selective Artificial K+ Channels: An Example of Selectivity-Induced Transmembrane Potential

    Arnaud Gilles;Mihail Barboiu;Mihail Barboiu

  • Single-Crystal X-ray Structure of 1,3-Dimethylcyclobutadiene by Confinement in a Crystalline Matrix

    Yves-Marie Legrand;Arie van der Lee;Mihail Barboiu

  • Amplification and transcription of the dynamic supramolecular chirality of the guanine quadruplex.

    Carole Arnal-Hérault;Andreea Banu;Mihail Barboiu;Mathieu Michau

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn University of Strasbourg
Cheng-Yong Su
Cheng-Yong Su Sun Yat-sen University
Claudiu T. Supuran
Claudiu T. Supuran University of Florence
Gavin Vaughan
Gavin Vaughan European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Dawei Wang
Dawei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jean-Yves Winum
Jean-Yves Winum University of Montpellier
Benoit Coasne
Benoit Coasne Grenoble Alpes University
Jeffery T. Davis
Jeffery T. Davis University of Maryland, College Park
Mario Ruben
Mario Ruben Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Viatcheslav Freger
Viatcheslav Freger Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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