NSA group is a part of the:

• Marie Curie Initial Training Network PROTONÂcheck here
• INTELWATTÂEuropean Union’s Horizon 2020ÂÂÂÂÂcheck here

• ERANET-M-SmartMatter ProjectÂÂÂÂÂÂÂCcheck here

• ERANET-M COFFEE ProjectÂ. ÂÂÂÂÂcheck here

The NSA group is developing an_interdisciplinary research project in chemistry, biology & physics, using a supramolecular chemistry-biomimetic materials-membrane platform. The methodology consists in a_new global approach,ÂincludingÂmultidisciplinary knots of synergetic concepts in molecular conception, supramolecular transcription an d material chemistry which can be implemented simultaneously in order to converge to polyfunctional adaptive membranes. This natural follow-up project might provide new insights into the basic features that control the design of new materials and membranes with applications in chemical separations, sensors or as storage/delivery devices. Strong activities are developping around water and ion channels toward highly selective membranes for desalination or Dynamic constitutional frameworks for environmental and health applications.

September 2021:

Dynamic constitutional frameworks expressed in the presence

of bacteria promote antibacterial and antibiofilm activities.

see our recent paper in Angew. Chemie in collaboration

withÂProf. Stephane Vincent, Universite de Namur

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June 2021: Environnement : La désalinisation de l’eau est-elle la solution miracle face aux pénuries ?

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June 2021- NSA group contribute the Balard Chemistry Conferences 2021

Oral Presentations

Sanaa Daakour : Dynamer-liposome dynamic system for drug delivery

Dmytro Strilets:ÂSynergetic self-assembly of alkylureido systems into artificial water channels

Best Poster Prize -Environmental sciences

Dandan SUÂPolyamine Dynamic Frameworks as Activators of Carbonic Anhydrases

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Congratulation to our excellent students!!!!

 

April 2021:The NSA team is glad to welcome Dinesh Mahalingam post doc INTELWATT. Happy to have you with us!

3 April 2021: Artifical Water Channels-toward cost effective desalination. Our research was highlited in :

Journal du CNRS:

https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/dessaler-leau-de-mer-des-membranes-plus-rentables-et-plus-ecologiques

Liberation national newspaper :

https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/dessaler-leau-de-mer-un-procede-plus-rentable-et-plus-ecologique-20210402_3XAEBCYZFJBADGLQWEIXTWOJEU/

Scienceblog:

https://scienceblog.com/522145/more-eco-friendly-cost-effective-membranes-for-seawater-desalination/

17 February 2021: wonderful group meeting today. Welcome to the new NSA members.

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February 2021:The NSA team is glad to welcome Maxime Leclere (PhD, INTREPRIDUS), Kelvinraj Nursiah (PhD, INTELWATT) and Romain Dupuis (Post-doc LabexMUSE, collab with Prof. Guillaume MAURIN, ICGM)

Happy to have you with us at IEM, Maxime, Kelvinraj and Romain.

January 2021- 

New highlighting article on Biomimetic AWC membranes in Industrie Pharma N°133 Janvier 2021.Retrouvez dans un livret toutes les actualités 2020proposées par les laboratoires à la communication l’Institut de chimie du CNRS: buff.ly/3sf6dKK

17 December2020-Excellent NSA group meeting today! Happy holliday!

15 December2020-Congratulations Dr.Maria Di Vincenzo for the PhD defense today.

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November 2020-Behind the paper NATURE RESEARCHÂÂÂÂÂcheck here

Biomimetic Artifical water channels for enhanced desalination

CNRSPRESSrelease check here

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November 2020- Biomimetic Artifical water channels for enhanced desalination

Read our recent paper published in Nature Nanotechnology- PhD Maria Di Vincenzo

Inspired by biological proteins, artificial water channels (AWCs) can be used

toÂovercome the performances of traditional desalination membranes. check here

November 2020- Read our recent review published in Chemistry an European Journal

- a new milestone snapshout on Artificial water channels PhD Libo HuangÂÂÂcheck here

October 2020- J Mat Chem B RSC cover picture-ÂPhD Student Dandan SU

Cationic Dynamic covalent polymers for gene transfection. Excellent collaborative project with Dr. Sebastien Ulrich -ÂÂÂcheck here

September 2020:The NSA team is glad to welcome Omar Samhari for his Eng Stage within IDEA Project.Happy to have you with us at IEM, Omar.

September 2020- Selective Artifical Water Channels based on Pillar[5]arene dimers

of variable pore dimensionsÂthat offer size restriction reminiscent of natural proteins

see our recent paper in collaboration with Prof Tomoki Oghosi and Prof. Marc Baaden groups

publishedinAngewandte ChemistryÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ-- check here

September 2020- Read our recent review published in Angewandte Chemistry Â check here

August2020- Read our recent review published in Angewandte Chemistry check here

March 2020- Cover of ChemPlusChem : Adaptive folding od Amines and aminoacids in Calix[4]hosts

collaborative project with LIFM (Liya Dai), University Sun Yat Sen, Guangzhou, China check here

February 2020:The NSA team is glad to welcomeÂSanaa Daakour for her PhD degree on Dynamic Constitutional Frameworks for delivery devices,Âfor a period of 2020-2023 cotutelle with our former pHD Professor Gihane NASR, Universite Libanaise Beirut, Liban.Happy to have you with us at IEM, Sanaa.

March 2020- Dynamic constitutional Hydrogels: collaborative project with Dr. Suming Li at IEM -PhD Rui Yu

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March 2020- Supramolecular networks via Halogen bonding-collaborative project with Prof. Ion Grosu, University Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca, Romania check here

January 2020- Dynamic Constitutional Frameworks for enzyme activation and biomedical applications-collaborative project with Yan Zhang - former NSA post-doc-now professor at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, ChinaÂ

October 2019- Japan Conference tour:_

24/10/2019 Fujita Group Seminar, University of Tokyo, Prof. Makoto Fujita

15/10/2019 GTR-IGER-VBL Seminar, University of Nagoya, Prof. Eiji Yashima_check here

10/10/2019 : Supramolecular Chemistry Seminar, Kyoto University, Prof. Tomoki Ogoshi_check here

07/10/2019 NanoLSI Open Seminar, Kanazawa University, Prof. Katsuhiro Maeda_check here

04/10/2019 GTR-IGER-VBL Seminar, University of Nagoya, Prof. Eiji Yashima_check here

September 2019:_Congratulations to Dmytro STRILETS_who won the European Membrane Society Travel Award at Imagine Membranes 2019,Azores 21-27/09/2019 Horta, Portugal .check here

September 2019:The NSA team is glad to welcome_Dandan Su_from Jiangnan University

for her PhD degree on Dynamic Constitutional Frameworks,granted by Chiana Scholarship Council for a period of 2019-2023. Happy to have you with us at IEM, Dandan.

September 2019:_Our Mini Review Article_Artificial GramicidinsÂhas been accepted in Frontiers in Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry.

Nice collaboration with our ex post-doc reseracher Dr. Zhanhu Sun._check the paper here

August 2019:ÂArtificial Water Channels for Water Purification & Desalination at 258th

Fall 2019 ACS meeting, Division of Environmental Chemistry in San Diego, August 25-29th, 2019. 29/08/2019, San Diego Convention Center.

Keynote Lecture by Mihai Barboiu, Oral presentation by Maria Di Vincenzo and Libo Huang

July 2019:_Our paper Self-Assembled Columnar Triazole-Quartets - an example of synergetic H-bonding / Anion-π_Channels_is Cover paper in Agewandte Chemistry: check the paper here

Mai 2019:_lnvited conference - Prof. Bing Gong , University at Buffalo, NY USA_check here

May 2019:Keynote Lecture on Artificial water Channels by Mihai Barboiu at North American MembraneSociety Meeting 2019 (NAMS2019) 12-15 April 2019, Pittsburgh, PA, USA .check here

April 2019:Keynote Lecture on Artificial water Channels by Mihai Barboiu at Engennering with

Membranes 2019 (EWM2019) , 8-10 April 2019, Bastad, Sweden .check here

Mars. 2019:The NSA team is glad to welcome_Luigi SEQUI_from Politecnico di Torino, Italia -

colaboration with Prof. Alberto Tiraferri, for his master degree research stage on nanofiltration membranes.

Mars. 2019:The NSA team is glad to welcome Iuliana ANDREI, Cristina ION and Cristina JEGU

from University Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iasi, Romania for their master degree research stages on water and ion channels.

Mars 2019:Artificial Water Channels may be most innovative new idea for water purification membranes ans aqueous separations. Faraday Discussion Highliting paper

has been now published in Chemical Communicationsonline.

Mars 2019:Extending NSA collaborations. lnvited conference and fruitfull collaboration projects with Prof. Yan Zhang,our fantastic post-doctoral associate 2014-2017 and Prof. Jing Hua Chen at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Jiangnan University, WUXI, China:check here

February 2019:Invited Lecture on Artificial water Channels by Mihai Barboiu at SUPRACHEM 2019

(National german meeting on Supramolecular Chemistry), 24-26 February 2019, Univitersity of Wurtzburg, Germany.check here

February 2019:Invited Lecture on Artificial water Channels by Mihai Barboiu at Instituto per la Technoligia delle Membrane,Rende Italy 15 February 2019. Togheter with Maria di Vincenzo we meet a lot of friends and establish nice collaborations. Farewell!

February 2019: Congratulations to Maria Di Vincenzo who won the 1st Prize Nature Nanotechnology Poster Awardat Dead Sea Water Workshop, 4-7 February 2019, Ein Gedi, Israel.check here

October 2018: Our recent review, Encapsulation versus Self-Aggregation toward Highly Selective Artificial K⁺ Channels,is now available on the Accounts of Chemical Research website - check here

September 2018:Calix[4]-box” cages promote the formation of amide bonds in water in the absence of coupling reagents.

Collaborative research from Adaptive Supramolecular Nanosystems, Institut European des Membranes, Montpellier, Franceand Lehn Institute of Functional Materialshas now published online.

September 2018: Artificial Water Channels may be most innovative new idea for water purification membranesand aqueous separations.Faraday Discussions Artificial Water Channels volume has now been published online.

August 2018: Our open acces review on Artificial Water Channels has been published on

Nature npj clean water - Check Here

August 2018: Des membranes artificielles bio-inspirées pour filtrer l'eau:

http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/5507.htm

April 2017: The pursuit of happiness: the molecules responsible for the emotions of reward and happiness have been entrapped within crystalline nano-cages. Serotonin, dopamine and histamine, which are normally

difficult to crystallize, have been easily captured in water within pyrene-box cages made of pyrenetetrasulfonateanions and guanidinium cations. For more details, read the article by Weixu Feng et al. published in Chem. Eur. J. 2017.The article was selected by the editor of Chem. Eur. J. to appear as a "Frontpiece".

March 2017: Mihai D. BARBOIU has received a prize from the Case Western Reserve

University in Cleveland for outstanding advances in the field of ion and water channels.

The award was handed by porf. D. Mateescu.

Feb. 2017: Within the framework of the DYNANO ITN and the collaboration with the teams of Prof. J.M. Lehn and Prof. N. Giuseppone,it has been shown that artificial membrane-spanning channels can be constructedbased on supramolecular triarylamine scaffolds.This study has been published in J.Am.Chem.Soc.

Dec. 2016: Mihai D. BARBOIU has received The Order of Faithful Service (Romanian: Ordinul Național "Serviciul Credincios")for "the high appreciation and recognition for the excellence he has shown throughout their career in scientific researchand taken significant contribution to promoting the image of the country in world" from the

Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, on December 1^st 2016.

July 2016: Istvan K. and Yves-Marie L. attended the Gordon Research Conference on Membranes:

Materials & Processes in New London, HN, USA. Istvan was undertaken a 2-months doctoral research stay

within Prof. G. Belfort's group at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, where he worked on polymer brushes for water filtration

July 2016: Mihai D. BARBOIU has been invited to deliver the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award Lectureat The 5th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates

(MSMLG2016, University of Bath from 24th to 28th of July 2016)