Research Interests

The current research activities include:

• Study of hydrogen, methane and Carbon dioxide adsorption in C-based materials, Metal Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks.
• Ab-initio investigation of structural and electronic properties, of organic and inorganic molecules.
• Programming and development of Grand Canonical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics applications.

Short Curriculum Vitae

Manolis Tylianakis has received the B.Sc. in Physics of the University of Crete in 1992. He obtained his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry from the Chemistry Department of the University of Crete in 1997 with work on molecular dynamics of natural and synthetic polymers and biopolymers in dilute solution by the aid of ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. From 2001 to 2003 he was a visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science & Technology at the University of Crete.

Selected Recent Publications

• Tylianakis, E, Klontzas, E, Froudakis, GE. "Multi-scale theoretical investigation of hydrogen storage in covalent organic frameworks", NANOSCALE 3, 856-869 (2011).
• Tylianakis, E, Dimitrakakis, GK, Melchor, S, Dobado, JA, Froudakis, GE. "Porous nanotube network: a novel 3-D nanostructured material with enhanced hydrogen storage capacity", CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS 47, 2303-2305 (2011).
• Stergiannakos, T, Tylianakis, E, Klontzas, E, Froudakis, GE. "Enhancement of Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks by Mg(2+) Functionalization: A Multiscale Computational Study", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 114, 16855-16858 (2010).
• Tylianakis, E, Psofogiannakis, GM, Froudakis, GE. "Li-Doped Pillared Graphene Oxide: A Graphene-Based Nanostructured Material for Hydrogen Storage", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS 1, 2459-2464 (2010).
• Klontzas, E, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Designing 3D COFs with Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Capacity", NANO LETTERS 10, 452-454 (2010).
• Mavrandonakis, A, Klontzas, E, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Enhancement of Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks by the Incorporation of the Sulfonate Group and Li Cations. A Multiscale Computational Study", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 131, 13410-13414 (2009).
• Klontzas, E, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Hydrogen Storage in Lithitim-Functionalized 3-D Covalent-Organic Framework Materials", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 113, 21253-21257 (2009).
• Tylianakis, E, Klontzas, E, Froudakis, GE. "The effect of structural and energetic parameters of MOFs and COFs towards the improvement of their hydrogen storage properties", NANOTECHNOLOGY 20, 204030 (2009).
• Dimitrakakis, GK, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Pillared Graphene: A New 3-D Network Nanostructure for Enhanced Hydrogen Storage", NANO LETTERS 8, 3166-3170 (2008).
• Klontzas, E, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Hydrogen storage in 3D covalent organic frameworks. A multiscale theoretical investigation", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 112, 9095-9098 (2008).
• Klontzas, E, Mavrandonakis, A, Tylianakis, E, Froudakis, GE. "Improving hydrogen storage capacity of MOF bv functionalization of the organic linker with lithium atoms", NANO LETTERS 8, 1572-1576 (2008).
• Mavrandonakis, A, Tylianakis, E, Stubos, AK, Froudakis, GE. "Why Li doping in MOFs enhances H-2 storage capacity? A multi-scale theoretical study", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C 112, 7290-7294 (2008).
• E. Tylianakis and G. E. Froudakis, "Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Method for Gas adsorption and separation", J. Comp. Theor. Nanosc 6, 1(2008).