contact information
Head of Dielectric Materials Group
Physics Department, NTUA, Zografou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece
e-mail: akyrits@central.ntua.gr & akyrits@mail.ntua.gr
tel.: +30 210 772 3053
Office 114
Biosketch
Dr. Kyritsis Apostolos is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of National Technical University of Athens – NTUA, Greece. He teaches elementary Physics and special topics of Physics of Dielectric Materials, Materials Science, and Advanced Technological Materials at under-graduate level. At post- graduate level he participates in three MSc Programmes teaching special topics of Nanomaterials, Glasses and Nanocomposites, and Organic Nanomaterials. He is main coordinator/partner in international and national projects. He has published more than 160 journal papers, more than 35 papers in conference proceedings and 6 book chapters. He has more than 215 contributions to international conferences. Dr Kyritsis has been involved in national and international standardisation activities working at the Greek National Standardization Body (ELOT) between 2000 and 2005 and is strongly interested in metrology aspects of experimental measurements.
Research Area
- Dielectric, thermal, calorimetric and vapor sorption studies in ionic crystals, ceramics, polymers and complex polymeric systems
- Structure-property relationships in polymers, biopolymers, nanocomposites
- Hydration properties of inorganic and organic (polymers, biomaterials) materials
- Thermal conductivity of inorganic and organic (polymers, biomaterials) materials (solids and liquids)
- Confinement effects on adsorbed water molecules, organic solvents and macromolecules. The confining medium can be porous materials, intercalated clays, cross linked polymeric chains.
- Stimuli responsive behavior of novel polymeric systems
- Thermal and dielectric properties of several classes of liquids: from insulating, high voltage, liquids up to ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents
Selected Publications
- Papadopoulos L., Klonos P.A., Kluge M., Zamboulis A., Terzopoulou Z., Kourtidou D., Magaziotis A., Chrissafis K., Kyritsis A., Bikiaris D.N., Robert T. Unlocking the potential of furan-based poly(ester amide)s: An investigation of crystallization, molecular dynamics and degradation kinetics of novel poly(ester amide)s based on renewable poly(propylene furanoate). Polymer Chemistry 12 (2021) 5518–5534. (download)
- Vassiliadou O., Chrysostomou V., Pispas S., Klonos P.A., Kyritsis A. Molecular dynamics and crystallization in polymers based on ethylene glycol methacrylates (EGMAs) with melt memory characteristics: from linear oligomers to comb-like polymer. Soft Matter 17 (2021) 1284 (15p.) (download)
- Capaccioli S., Zheng L., Kyritsis A., Paciaroni A., Vogel M., Ngai K.L. The Dynamics of Hydrated Proteins Are the Same As Highly Asymmetric Mixtures of Two Glass-Formers. ACS Omega 6 (2021) 340 – 347. (download)
- Klonos P.A., Papadopoulos L., Kasimatis M., Iatrou H., Kyritsis A., Bikiaris D.N. Synthesis, Crystallization, Structure-Memory Effects and Molecular Dynamics of Biobased and Renewable Poly(n-alkylene succinate)s with n from 2 to 10. Macromolecules 54 (2021) 1106 – 1119. (download)
- Klonos P.A., Peoglos V., Bikiaris D.N., Kyritsis A. Rigid Amorphous Fraction and Thermal Diffusivity in Nanocomposites Based on Poly(L‑lactic acid) Filled with Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Oxide. J. Phys. Chem. C 124 (2020) 5469−5479. (download)
- Klonos P.A., Patelis N., Glynos E., Sakellariou G., Kyritsis A. Molecular dynamics in polystyrene single chain nanoparticles. Macromolecules 52 (2019) 9334-9340. (download)
- Kripotou S., Stefanopoulou E., Culebras-Martinez M., Morales-Roman R.M., Gallego-Ferrer G., Kyritsis A. Water dynamics and thermal properties of tyramine-modified hyaluronic acid-gelatin hydrogels. Polymer 178 (2019) 121598. (download)
- Klonos P.A., Tegopoulos S.N., Koutsiara C.S., Kontou E., Pissis P., Kyritsis A. Effects of CNTs on thermal transitions, thermal diffusivity and electrical conductivity in nanocomposites: comparison between an amorphous and a semicrystalline polymer matrix. Soft Matter 15 (2019) 1813-1824. (download)
- Aravopoulou D., Kyriakos K., Miasnikova A., Laschewsky A., Papadakis C.M., Kyritsis A. Comparative investigation of the thermoresponsive behavior of two diblock copolymers comprising PNIPAM and PMDEGA blocks. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122 (2018) 2655-2668, 2018. (download)
- Klonos P.A., Pissis P., Kyritsis A. Effects of hydration/dehydration on interfacial polymer fraction and dynamics in nanocomposites based on metal-oxides and physically adsorbed polymer. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121 (2017) 19428-19441. (download)
- Sasaki K., Panagopoulou A., Kia R., Shinyashiki N., Yagihara S., Kyritsis A., Pissis P. Dynamics of uncrystallized water, ice, and hydrated protein in partly crystallized gelatin-water mixtures studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121 (2017) 265-272. (download)
- Kripotou S., Psylla C., Kyriakos K., Raftopoulos K.N., Zhao J., Zhang G., Pispas S., Papadakis C.M., Kyritsis A. Structure and crystallization behavior of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) chains in core-shell brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) side chains. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 5963-77. (download)
- Klonos P., Kulyk K., Borysenko M.V., Gun’ko V.M., Kyritsis A., Pissis P. Effects of molecular weight below the entanglement threshold on interfacial nanoparticles/polymer dynamics. Macromolecules 49 (2016) 9457-9473. (download)
- Klonos P, Sulym I.Ya., Borysenko M.V., Gun’ko V.M., Kripotou S., Kyritsis A., Pissis P. Interfacial interactions and complex segmental dynamics in systems based on silica-polydimethylsiloxane core-shell nanoparticles: Dielectric and Thermal study. Polymer 58 (2015) 9-21. (download)
- Panagopoulou A., Kyritsis A., Vodina M., Pissis P. Dynamics of uncrystallized water and protein in hydrated elastin studied by thermal and dielectric techniques. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) Proteins and Proteomics 1834 (2013) 977-988. (download)
- Pissis P., Kyritsis A. Hydration studies in polymer hydrogels. J. Polym. Sci. B: Polym. Phys. 51 (2013) 159-175. (download)
- Panagopoulou A., Kyritsis A., Shinyashiki N., Pissis P. Protein and water dynamics in bovine serum albumin-water mixtures over wide ranges of compososition. J. Phys. Chem. B 116 (2012) 4593-4602. (download)
- Shinyashiki N., Spanoudaki A., Yamamoto W., Nambu E., Yoneda K., Kyritsis A., Pissis P., Kita R., Yagihara S. Segmental relaxations of hydrophilic poly(vinylpyrrolidone) in cloroform studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy. Macromolecules 44 (2011) 2140-2148. (download)