| Dimitrios Gournis | | |  | Assistant Professor
of
Chemistry of Layered Materials |
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| | | | Academic titles | | Experience | | Teaching | | Research | | Publications | | | | Academic Titles | | | • Diploma of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece (1992) | | | • Ph.D. from Department of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1998) | | | | | | Education & Professional Experience | | | • Postgraduate Student, Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece (1993-1997). | | | • Postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Materials Science NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece (1999-2000). | | | • Assistant Professor (fixed term contract), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece (1999-2004) | | | • Visiting Researcher, Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen (RuG), the Netherlands (2004-2005) | | | • Assistant Professor of “Chemistry of Layered Materials” (tenure), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece (2005- today). | | | | | | Teaching Activities in the Department | | | • Materials Laboratory I: Materials Characterization | | | • Materials Laboratory II: Synthesis and characterization of Ceramics and Composites | | | • Chemical Processes | | | • Chemistry of Materials – Layered & Nanoporous Materials | | | • Bioceramics. | | | • Advanced Ceramics. | | | • Diploma Theses: Supervision of 45 students, Jury of 50 students’ theses. | | | • Master Theses: Supervision of 4 students, Jury of 14 students’ theses. | | | • Ph.D. Theses: Supervision of 4 students, Jury of 15 students’ theses. | | | | | | Research Interests | | | • Chemistry of Materials (Solid State Chemistry). | | | • Chemistry of phyllomorphous materials (in particular clays, pillared clays, organo-clays and carbon layered structures) | | | • Hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites, carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes, fullerenes), mesoporous materials, magnetic nanoparticles and biocatalysts. | | | • Synthetic procedures: intercalations reactions, sol-gel, hydrothermal synthesis, Catalytically Chemical Vapor Deposition (CCVD), solid state reactions, Langmuir-Blogett. | | | • Characterization techniques: powder XRD; FTIR, Raman, UV-Vis, EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopies, DTA/DSC/TGA, porosity measurements, SEM microscopy. | | | | | | Representative (10) Publications | | | • V. Georgakilas, A. Bourlinos, D. Gournis, T. Tsoufis, C. Trapalis, A. Mateo-Alonso and M. Prato. Multi-purpose organically modified carbon nanotubes: From functionalization to nanotube composites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2008) In press | | | • E. Serefoglou, K. Litina, D. Gournis, E. Kalogeris, A. A. Tzialla, I. V. Pavlidis, C. Stamatis, E. Maccallini, M. Lubomska, and P. Rudolf. Smectite clays as solid supports for immobilization of β-glucosidase: Synthesis, Characterization and Biochemical properties. Chem. Mater. (2008) 20, 4106. | | | • V. Georgakilas, D. Gournis, V. Tzitzios, L. Pasquato, D.M. Guldi and M. Prato. Decorating Carbon Nanotubes with Metals or Semiconductors. J. Mater. Chem. (2007) 17, 2679 | | | • D. Gournis, L. Jankovic, E. Maccallini, D. Benne, P. Rudolf, J. F. Colomer, C. Sooambar, V. Georgakilas, M. Prato, M. Fanti, F. Zerbetto, G. H. Sarova, and D. M. Guldi. Clay-fulleropyrrolidine nanocomposites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2006) 128, 6154. | | | • L. Jankovič, D. Gournis, P. N. Trikalitis, I. Arfaoui, T. Cren, P. Rudolf, M.-H. Sage, T. T. M. Palstra, B. Kooi, J. De Hosson, M. A. Karakassides, K. Dimos, A. Moukarika, and T. Bakas. Carbon Nanotubes Encapsulating Superconducting Single-Crystalline Tin Nanowires. Nano Letters. (2006) 6, 1131. | | | • V. Georgakilas, V. Tzitzios, D. Gournis, and D. Petridis. Attachment of magnetic nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes and their soluble derivatives. Chem. Mater. (2005) 17, 1613. | | | • D. Gournis, V. Georgakilas, M. A. Karakassides, T. Bakas, K. Kordatos, M. Prato, M. Fanti, and F. Zerbetto. Incorporation of fullerene derivatives into smectite clays: A new family of organic-inorganic nanocomposites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2004) 126, 8561. | | | • D. Gournis and G. Floudas. Hairy plates: polyethylene-b-polyisoprene copolymers in the presence of laponite clay. Chem. Mater. (2004) 16, 1686 | | | • D. Gournis, M.A. Karakassides, N. Boukos, T. Bakas and D. Petridis. Catalytic synthesis of carbon nanotubes on clay minerals. Carbon. (2002) 40, 2641. | | | • V. Georgakilas, D. Gournis, and D. Petridis. Organoclay derivatives in the synthesis of macrocycles. Angew. Chem.-Int. Edit. (2001) 40, 4286 | | |
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