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Dimitris Vlassopoulos

Professor
Affiliated faculty member of the Polymer Group of IESL-FORTH in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

office: I.E.S.L. Building, Δ-102
telephone: +302810391469
fax: +302810391305
e-mail: dvlasso@iesl.forth.gr, dvlasso@materials.uoc.gr

Research Interests

The current research activities focus on soft matter physics and engineering problems:

Molecular Rheology and rheo-physics in the bulk and at liquid interfaces.
Architecturally complex polymers.
Soft colloids.

Short Curriculum Vitae

Dimitris Vlassopoulos received the Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1983. After a short industrial experience in Greece, he moved to the USA and obtained his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1990, working on viscoelastic fluid mechanics. His first appointment was at the Paulsboro Research Laboratory of Mobil Research & Development Corporation. He returned to Greece and joined FORTH in Heraklion at the end of 1992 and the University of Crete in 2002. He has held visiting Professorships at the University of Delaware, KITP and ESPCI.

Extended CV

Selected Recent Publications

Snijkers, F, Vlassopoulos, D. "Cone-partitioned-plate geometry for the ARES rheometer with temperature control", JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 55, 1167-1186 (2011).
Erwin, BM, Vlassopoulos, D, Gauthier, M, Cloitre, M. "Unique slow dynamics and aging phenomena in soft glassy suspensions of multiarm star polymers", PHYSICAL REVIEW E 83, 061402 (2011).
Klein, CO, de Viguerie, L, Christopoulou, C, Jonas, U, Clark, CG, Mullen, K, Vlassopoulos, D. "Viscoelasticity of semifluorinated alkanes at the air/water interface", SOFT MATTER 7, 7737-7746 (2011).
Truzzolillo, D, Vlassopoulos, D, Gauthier, M. "Osmotic Interactions, Rheology, and Arrested Phase Separation of Star-Linear Polymer Mixtures", MACROMOLECULES 44, 5043-5052 (2011).
Antoniou, E, Voudouris, P, Larsen, A, Loppinet, B, Vlassopoulos, D, Pastoriza-Santos, I, Liz-Marzan, LM. "Static and Dynamic Plasmon-Enhanced Light Scattering from Dispersions of Polymer-Grafted Silver Nanoprisms in the Bulk and Near Solid Surfaces", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 116, 3888-3896 (2012).