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

• 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 and ETH Zurich. European Editor, Rheologica Acta (2006-2011).

Selected Recent Publications

• Truzzolillo, D, Vlassopoulos, D, Munam, A, Gauthier, M. "Depletion gels from dense soft colloids: Rheology and thermoreversible melting", JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 58, 1441-1462 (2014).
• E. van Ruymbeke, H. Lee, T. Chang, A. Nikopoulou, N. Hadjichristidis, F. Snijkers, and D. Vlassopoulos, "Molecular rheology of branched polymers: decoding and exploring the role of architectural dispersity through a synergy of anionic synthesis, interaction chromatography, rheometry and modeling", Soft Matter 10, 4762-4777 (2014).
• F. Snijkers, H. Y. Cho, A. Nese, K. Matyjaszewski, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen, and D. Vlassopoulos, "Effects of core microstructure on structure and dynamics of star polymer melts: from polymeric to colloidal response, Macromolecules 47, 5347-5356 (2014).
• Schlüter, AD, Halperin, A, Kröger, M, Vlassopoulos, D, Wegner, G, Zhang, BZ. "Dendronized Polymers: Molecular Objects between Conventional Linear Polymers and Colloidal Particles", ACS MACRO LETTERS 3, 991-998 (2014).
• Vlassopoulos, D, Cloitre, M. "Tunable rheology of dense soft deformable colloids", invited review article, CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE 19, 561-574 (2014).
• Gooßen, S, Brás, AR, Pyckhout-Hintzen, W, Wischnewski, A, Richter, D, Rubinstein, M, Roovers, J, Lutz, PJ, Jeong, Y, Chang, T, Vlassopoulos, D. "Influence of the Solvent Quality on Ring Polymer Dimensions", MACROMOLECULES 48, 1598-1605 (2015).