Τμήμα Επιστήμης & Μηχανικής Υλικών
Coordinator: Asst. Professor Em. Glynos
Small Scale, Big Impact: Harnessing nanomaterials to engineer a sustainable future
Lecturer: Dr. Georgia Potsi
Monday 02 March 2026 at 16:00
Nanomaterials occupy a central role in modern materials science, offering a transformative platform for addressing global technological and environmental challenges. At length scales below 100 nm, quantum confinement and high surface-to-volume ratios [...]Photocatalytic Systems for Solar Energy Utilization
Lecturer: Dr. Georgios Charalambidis
Friday 27 February 2026 at 15:00
The development of efficient photocatalytic systems for solar energy utilization is a key scientific and technological challenge in the context of sustainable energy production and environmental protection. This presentation will focus on my research [...]Superconductivity amidst magnetism climbing high in two-dimensional iron-based materials
Lecturer: Alexandros Lappas
Friday 12 December 2025 at 15:00
At everyday temperatures, all materials resist electrical flow, causing energy to be lost as heat. Cooling typically does not eliminate this resistance. Superconductors are the rare exemption: below a critical temperature (TC), they carry electric cu [...]Polymer Nanocomposites: Correlating Structure with Properties
Lecturer: Dr. Kiriaki Chrissopoulou
Friday 21 November 2025 at 14:00
Polymer materials are often filled with inorganics to improve their properties. The cases in which the additive exists in the form of a fine nm-sized dispersion within the polymeric matrix, thus producing a nanocomposite, allow the investigation of b [...]Non-Carbon Backbone Polytelluroxane
Lecturer: Prof. Huaping Xu
Thursday 16 October 2025 at 15:00
In contrast to other main group elements, group VI elements are rarely observed to form long linear polymer main chains. We reported the synthesis and characterizations of polytelluroxane, a polymer with an inorganic backbone constituted of tellurium [...]Innovative technologies for implantable orthopaedic devices
Lecturer: Prof. Nicola Baldini
Wednesday 08 October 2025 at 15:00
The Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli has played a pioneering role in the development of orthopaedic implants, from the early contributions of Codivilla to the advances under Pizzoferrato in biomaterials research and biocompatibility testing. Building on t [...]The effect of interfacial stresses on foam and emulsion stability
Lecturer: Asst. Prof. Manolis Chatzigiannakis
Friday 26 September 2025 at 16:00
The stability and rheology of multiphase materials, such as foams and emulsions, are largely governed by the properties of their interfaces and the behavior of thin liquid films (TLFs) separating interacting droplets or bubbles. When two bubbles come [...]Stimuli-responsive natural lipid droplets for selective lipid trafficking
Lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Costas Nikiforidis
Friday 26 September 2025 at 15:00
Natural lipid droplets (LDs or oleosomes) play a crucial role in the biological function of cells, due to their ability to traffic lipids through their triacylglycerol core. By combining experimental techniques with molecular dynamics simulations, we [...]Emergent behaviors of self-organized, soft matter systems
Lecturer: Emmanouela Filippidi
Thursday 12 June 2025 at 14:00
While reductionism, which operates on the idea that to understand the behavior of a complex system we need to break it down to its constituent parts and understand the physics that governs each of the parts, is an extremely powerful and necessary app [...]Designing Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium, Beyond Lithium, and a Sustainable Future
Lecturer: Emmanouil Glynos
Friday 30 May 2025 at 14:00
As the demand for high-performance, sustainable energy storage systems intensifies, lithium-based battery technologies remain at the forefront due to their high energy density and technological maturity. However, to meet future challenges in safety, [...]