John Tsamopoulos elected as a EUROMECH Fellow

We are delighted to announce that John Tsamopoulos has…

Relativistic Hydrodynamics from Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics: A beautiful journey

Over the years, non-equilibrium thermodynamics has offered a systematic and solid framework for formulating time-evolution equations for fluids…

Stelios Varchanis and John Tsamopoulos are the Winners of the 2022 Walters Prize

The Editors of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (JNNFM) and Elsevier are delighted to announce the winners of the sixth Walters Prize…

UPatras-ChemEng Team Places Third in 2022 International Chem-E Car Competition

The University of Patras - Chem-E-Car Team named Lamborgenius took third place in the 2022 American Institute of…

Prof. Spyros Pandis receives the Nikolai Albertovich Fuchs Memorial Award 2022

Prof. Spyros Pandis, Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras and Collaborating Faculty Member of FORTH/ICE-HT,…

@Chemeng Newsletter

@ChemEngUP is the newsletter of the Department of Chemical Engineering and includes information and news about the most important activities of…

John Tsamopoulos named a fellow of the Society Of Rheology (June 2022)

Professor John Tsamopoulos of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras was elected a fellow of the Society of Rheology…

Moderna co-founder Robert Langer: 'I wanted to use my chemical engineering to help people'

The chemical engineer Robert Langer co-founded Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, and his…

Using nonequilibrium thermodynamics to reformulate quantum field theories in terms of Feynman diagrams with a well-defined arrow of time

We all know that entropy and friction go hand-in-hand. Friction creates irreversibility which results in the generation of entropy. This…

Understanding Process Dynamics and Control - new book published by professors Ioannis Kookos, Kostas Cravaris and Cambdridge University Press

Presenting a fresh look at process control, this new text demonstrates state-space approach shown in parallel with the traditional approach to…

Atomic veil to save fading Van Gogh sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers are wilting. Each time a photon of light hits the paint on the…

Two new Visiting Scientists in our Department: Prof. Athanasios Nenes and Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Our Department has the honor to welcome as visiting scientists two International Scholars, Prof. Athanasios Nenes and Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis…

Professors Nicholas Peppas and Helena Florindo's Interdisciplinary Training on Nanotechnology Innovation

The UT Austin Portugal Program, a Science and Technology Partnership between the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology  (FCT) and the…

Origin of the Sharkskin Instability: Nonlinear Dynamics

Numerical simulations reveals the intrinsic mechanism for the onset of the sharkskin instability in polymer extrusion process

In this paper, we…

Graphene veils for the protection of artworks

A research article was published today in Nature Nanotechnology journal which paves the way for new methods of art conservation by the…

ITACA: Innovative Training Centre for Advanced 3rd level Course in Azerbaijan

The planned activities are:

the design and building up of a Training Center, where EU and AZ universities and stakeholders will share their…

Health & Safety @ ChemEngUP

The Health and Safety Committee of the Department of Chemical Engineering is responsible for the organization and the supervision of the…

Approaching Superlubricity by Three-Dimensional Printed Structures

Superlubricity, the sliding regime between two materials in which friction or resistance to sliding vanishes, expected capable of minimizing wear…

Associate Professor Yannis Dimakopoulos was appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Associate Professor Yannis Dimakopoulos was appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering of Elsevier…

Stretch and flow: Research published in PNAS sheds light on unusual properties of well-known materials

Experiments confirm numerical predictions for the normal stresses and extensional properties of elasto-viscoplastic materials -  a fruitful…

Prof. Vlasis Mavrantzas was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the "Polymer Physics” Section of "Polymers" (MDPI)

Prof. Vlasis Mavrantzas was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Polymer Physics Section of Polymers. Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) is an international, …

DCEup creates face shields for medical and nursing staff

The Department of Chemical Engineering is helping the struggling medical and nursing staff of Patras in the fight against Covid-19 war.

Front cover article of ChemElectroChem Journal

The partnership of two laboratories of our department led to a front cover article publication of the ChemElectroChem Journal (IF 3.98).

Yannis Dimakopoulos, Georgios Makrigiorgos, Georgios Georgiou, John Tsamopoulos are the 2018 Walters Prize winners

Yannis Dimakopoulos, Georgios Makrigiorgos, Georgios Georgiou, John Tsamopoulos are the 2018 Walters Prize winners. The Editors of the Journal of…

A three department laboratories partnership led to inside back cover article of Nanoscale magazine

The partnership of three laboratories of our department led to an inside back cover article publication of the Nanoscale magazine (IF 7.23).

Vayenas International Symposium on Physical Chemistry and its Applications for Sustainable Development

The Vayenas International Symposium on Physical Chemistry and its Applications for Sustainable Development, is dedicated to honoring the lifetime…

1st ChemEngUP Alumni Symposium

Ιn the context of celebrating 40 years of operation Department of Chemical Enginnering organized the…

Event for International Accreditation of ChemEngUP Diploma

In Athens on the first of November 2017, an event was organised to mark the international accreditation of the Diploma of the Department of…

Prof. Dionissios Mantzavinos has assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology

Prof. Dionissios Mantzavinos has assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology. The…

Tree Planting Activity on the Department of Chemical Engineering

On Friday, May 12 the Department of Chemical Engineering, condacted a Tree Planting Activity in the surrounding areas of our buildings. In the…

Waste4Think - Experimental runs in progress on the pilot of Halandri

In the framework of the European Project Waste4Think experimental runs are in progress in the Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering and…

Applied Mathematics Seminars

In the Applied Mathematics Laboratory there is conducted every Monday 15.00-18.00 and since 1989 an advanced Course-Seminar, associated with…

Why chemical engineering matters?

Why chemical engineering matters? A very good brochure of IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers). A text that helps those who want to study,…

Distinction for Professor Constantine Galiotis – Work award from Academy of Athens

At the ceremonial session which took place at the Academy of Athens on December 23rd 2015, the Academic Prize Pericles S. Theocharis was awarded…

Distinction for Professor John Tsamopoulos

In the conference of Viscoelastic Fluids held in Banff, Canada from 25th until 30th of October 2015 entitled “Viscoelastic Fluids: From Theory to…

Nomination Ceremony of Professor Nicholas A. Peppas as an honorary Doctorate

On Wednesday, the 3rd of June 2015 and at 12:00pm at the ceremony Hall “Odysseus Elytis” (Administration Building) took place the nomination…

10th Pan-Hellenic Scientific Chemical Engineering Conference

The Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras has been honored of organizing the 10th Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference (…

Student Information System / Web Registry

The web registry of the University of Patras provides students and professors a variety of online services for an on-line communication with the…

Complex systems for controlling drug delivery

The macromolecular engineering group of polymer Lab, taking advantage of its long experience on designing polymer-based responsive self-assemblies…

Star-shaped macromolecular architectures on Langmuir Blodget monolayers

Macromolecular engineering offers numerous possibilities to design multifunctional macromolecules of controlled architecture, size and…

Electrochemical Promotion of Catalysis

Recent work on the phenomenon of electrochemical promotion of Catalysis (EPOC) or non-Faradaic Electrochemical Modification of Catalytic Activity…