Constitutional Dynamic Materials Toward Natural Selection of Function

Y Zhang, M Barboiu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Constitutional dynamic chemistry (CDC) 1− 7 and its application, Dynamic combinatorial
chemistry (DCC), 8− 18 are emergent approaches to generate chemical diversity. In contrast …

Encapsulation versus Self-Aggregation toward Highly Selective Artificial K+ Channels

M Barboiu - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Natural ion-channel proteins allow ion transport across cell membranes at rates
very close to those for ionic diffusion in water. Among them, natural KcsA K+ channels …

Oriented chiral water wires in artificial transmembrane channels

I Kocsis, M Sorci, H Vanselous, S Murail… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Aquaporins (AQPs) feature highly selective water transport through cell membranes, where
the dipolar orientation of structured water wires spanning the AQP pore is of considerable …

Imino-chitosan biodynamers

L Marin, B Simionescu, M Barboiu - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The imine-bond formation on chitosan backbones occurs with very low yields in aqueous
solutions and is significantly improved in hydrogels or in solid state films. The dynamic …

Out‐of‐water constitutional self‐organization of chitosan–cinnamaldehyde dynagels

L Marin, S Moraru, MC Popescu… - … A European Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An investigation of the constitutional adaptive gelation process of chitosan/cinnamaldehyde
(C/Cy) dynagels is reported. These gels generate timely variant macroscopic organization …

Antifungal vanillin–imino-chitosan biodynameric films

L Marin, I Stoica, M Mares, V Dinu… - Journal of Materials …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Vanillin–chitosan biodynamers have been prepared and structure–morphology correlations
revealed the pathway of progressive incorporation of the aldehyde onto chitosan …

Ordered hybrids from template‐free organosilane self‐assembly

A Chemtob, L Ni, C Croutxé‐Barghorn… - … –A European Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite considerable achievements over the last two decades, nonporous organic–
inorganic hybrid materials are mostly amorphous, especially in the absence of solvothermal …

Dynamic hybrid materials for constitutional self-instructed membranes

A Cazacu, YM Legrand, A Pasc, G Nasr… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - pnas.org
Constitutional self-instructed membranes were developed and used for mimicking the
adaptive structural functionality of natural ion-channel systems. These membranes are …

Dynamic interactive systems: dynamic selection in hybrid organic–inorganic constitutional networks

M Barboiu - Chemical Communications, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamic interactive systems are defined by networks of exchanging and reversibly
connected objects (supermolecules, polymers, biomolecules, biopolymers, pores …

Self-organized proton conductive layers in hybrid proton exchange membranes, exhibiting high ionic conductivity

M Michau, M Barboiu - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
We describe a proton exchange membrane (PEM) system in which the self-organization of
molecular precursors generates directional proton layers of high ionic group content in a …