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
- Molecular Rheology and rheo-physics in the bulk and at liquid interfaces.
- Branched, ring and associating polymeric systems and networks.
- Soft colloids and mixtures.
- Nonlinear rheological measurements.
Short Curriculum Vitae
- Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, 1983. PhD, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1990.
- Industrial experience (Metelco, Greece, 1983-4 and Mobil R&D, USA, 1990-2). FORTH researcher since 1992 and University of Crete faculty since 2002.
- Visiting Professorships at the University of Delaware, KITP, ESPCI, ETH Zurich, DTU and INSA. European Editor, Rheologica Acta (2006-2011), Associate Editor, Soft Matter (2015-).
- Weissenberg Award, European Society of Rheology, 2015.
Extended CV
Selected Recent Publications
- Baeza, GP, Dessi, C, Costanzo, S, Zhao, D, Gong, SS, Alegria, A, Colby, RH, Rubinstein, M, Vlassopoulos, D, Kumar, SK. "Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7, 11368 (2016).
- Yan, ZC, Costanzo, S, Jeong, Y, Chang, T, Vlassopoulos, D. "Linear and Nonlinear Shear Rheology of a Marginally Entangled Ring Polymer", MACROMOLECULES 49, 1444-1453 (2016).
- Vlassopoulos, D. "Macromolecular topology and rheology: beyond the tube model", RHEOLOGICA ACTA 55, 613-632 (2016).
- Dhont, JKG, Kang, K, Kriegs, H, Danko, O, Marakis, J, Vlassopoulos, D. "Nonuniform flow in soft glasses of colloidal rods", PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 2, 043301 (2017).
- Scherz, LF, Costanzo, S, Huang, Q, Schlutter, AD, Vlassopoulos, D. "Dendronized Polymers with Ureidopyrimidinone Groups: An Efficient Strategy To Tailor Intermolecular Interactions, Rheology, and Fracture", MACROMOLECULES 50, 5176-5187 (2017).
