Curriculum Details

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Colloids and Surfaces: Structure and dynamics of micelles, microemulsions and lipid vesicles. Self-organization of surfactants and lipids in solution and in thin films. Interaction of proteins with lipid bilayers. Growth of organic or inorganic particles in organized molecular assemblies. Water-soluble polymers. Hydrogels-Cross-linked hydrophilic polymers.

Photophysics: Photophysical studies of aromatic molecules, semiconductors and conjugated polymers. Fluorescence probing of organized molecular assemblies, gels and macromolecules. Light emission and amplification. Lasers. Organic LEDs. Solar Cells.

Materials and Devices: Sol-gel chemistry. Semiconductor nanoparticles. Heterogeneous photocatalysis for water and air purification. Organic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Mesoscopic Solar Cells. Organic light-emitting diodes. New materials for light emission and amplification. Water purification materials. Photocatalytic hydrogen production. Photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen and electricity production. Perovskite solar cells. Metal-air batteries. Supercapacitors

• 1. Charging a vanadium redox battery with a Photo(catalytic) Fuel Cell: Tatiana Santos Andrade, Vassilios Dracopoulos, Anastasios Keramidas, Márcio César Pereira and Panagiotis Lianos, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 221 (2021) 110889 (6p) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110889
  2. Biochar obtained by carbonization of spent coffee grounds and its application in the construction of an energy storage device: Tatiana Santos Andrade, John Vakros, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, 4 (2020) 100061 (7p) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2020.100061
  3. A photoassisted hydrogen peroxide fuel cell using dual photoelectrodes under tandem illumination for electricity generation: Tatiana Santos Andrade, Bárbara Antunes Cunha Sá, Izabela Campos Sena, Antero Ricardo Santos Neto, Francisco Guilherme Esteves Nogueira, Panagiotis Lianos, Márcio César Pereira, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 881 (2021) 114948 https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1cMTc5bbJ5d0-S
  4. Solar energy conversion and storage using a photocatalytic fuel cell combined with a supercapacitor: Tatiana Santos Andrade, Vassilios Dracopoulos and Panagiotis Lianos, Electronics 10 (2021) 273. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/3/273
  5. Biochar from spent malt rootlets and its application to an energy conversion and storage device: John Vakros, Ioannis D.Manariotis, Vassilios Dracopoulos, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos, Chemosensors 9 (2021) 57 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/3/57
  6. Production of hydrogen peroxide with a photocatalytic fuel cell and its application to UV/H2O2 degradation of dyes: Rebecca Dhawle, Zacharias Frontistis, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos, Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 6 (2021) 100109 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100109
  7. Decreasing the charging voltage of a zinc-air battery using a bifunctional W:BiVO4/V2O5 photoelectrode and sulfite as a sacrificial agent: Tatiana Santos Andrade, Izabela Campos Sena, Luiz Carlos Alves de Oliveira, Panagiotis Lianos and Márcio César Pereira, Materials Today Communications, 28 (2021) 102546 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2021.102546
  8. UV/H2O2 degradation of diclofenac in a photocatalytic fuel cell: Rebecca Dhawle, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 299 (2021) 120706 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120706
  9. Four electron selective O2 reduction by a tetranuclear vanadium (IV/V)/hydroquinonate catalyst: application in the operation of Zn–air batteries: Anastasios Keramidas, Sofia Hadjithoma, Chryssoula Drouza, Tatiana Santos Andrade and Panagiotis Lianos, New Journal of Chemistry, 46(2022)470-479 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/nj/d1nj03626b
  10. Enhancement of the photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide under intermittent light supply in the presence of an optimized biochar supercapacitor: Rebecca Dhawle, John Vakros, Vassilios Dracopoulos, Ioannis D. Manariotis, Dionissios Mantzavinos and Panagiotis Lianos, Electrochimica Acta, 427 (2022) 140846 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2022.140846