TIME：9:00, Oct. 23, 2025
VENUE: Thinker Hall, Zhenhai Main Campus, NIMTE
Abstract:
This lecture discusses the incipient development of the biomimetic artificial water channel systems. We include only systems that integrate synthetic elements in their water selective translocation unit. We review many of the natural systems involved in water and related proton transport processes. We describe how these systems can fit within our primary goal of maintaining natural function within bio-assisted artificial systems. In the last part, we present several inspiring breakthroughs from the last decade in the field of biomimetic artificial water channels. All these examples demonstrate how the novel interactive water-channels can parallel biomolecular systems. At the same time, these simpler artificial water channels offer a means of understanding structures useful for many biological scenarios. Moreover, they can be used for the preparation of highly selective membranes for desalination.
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Mihail Barboiu graduated from University Politehnica of Bucharest and received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Montpellier. He is CNRS Research Director at the Institut Europeen des Membranes in Montpellier and Fellow ofRoyal Society of Chemistry. A major focus of his research is DynamicConstitutional Chemistry toward Dynamic Interactive Systems: adaptive biomimetic membranes, dynamic delivery devices etc. As the author of more than 380 scientific publications and 500 conferences and lectures, Dr. Barboiu has received the 2024 Andre Collet Prize from French Chemical Society, European Investigator Award in Chemistry in 2004 and the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award in 2015 for the development of Artificial Water Channels.
