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Presentation and popularization activities

  1. 21-22 February 2008, Kick-off meeting, Athens, Hellas.
  2. Dr. N. Tagmatarchis was invited and deliver an oral presentation at the Electrochemical Society Meeting (Arizona, USA, 18-23 May, 2008)
  3. two oral presentations were delivered by Dr. I. D. Petsalakis and Dr. N. Tagmatarchis in the Workshop “Fullerenes: Design, Synthesis and Properties” organized by Dr. M. Papadopoulos at the Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the NHRF (May 30, 2008). Additionally, Dr. G. Theodorakopoulos chaired a session in the same workshop, while all CNSLab members attended it,
  4. in the frame of the 50 Years Anniversary of NHRF, Prof. Polanyi was invited and delivered a public lecture in the L. Zervas amphitheatre at the NHRF, on June 20, 2008,
  5. Dr N. Tagmatarchis was invited to participate in the closing programme entitled “Nanotechnology in the service of society” of a two-month events dedicated to Nanotechnology and co-organized by the Embassy of France in Athens and the Institute Francais d’Athenes. In this frame he delivered a lecture entitled “Nanotechnology in Chemistry” on November 14, 2008. The whole event was featured in one of the leading national newspapers (www.tovima.gr) where a summary of the lecture was presented for the public.
  6. Dr. I. Thanopoulos was invited as an invited speaker at the Latsis Symposium “Intramolecular Dynamics, Symmetry and Spectroscopy” in ETH Zurich, September 6-10, 2008.
  7. an oral presentation was delivered by Dr. G. Rotas and three posters were presented by Dr N. Karousis, S. Economopoulos and G. Pagona in the XXIV Panhellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece (September 21-24, 2008)
  8. Dr. I. Kerkines gave a Theoretical chemistry seminar at the University of Karlsruhe, January 20, 2009.
  9. We organized with great success the “International Conference on Carbon Nanostructured Materials – Cnano’09” in Santorini island during the period 4-8 October, 2009. The SC of NANOHOST is very pleased that top names in the field accepted the invitation to Cnano’09. The conference was well-attended featuring more than 100 participants and invited speakers, well-known in the field of research with carbon nanostructures from Europe, Japan, China and the United States. Interest in the conference was lively from the first to the last session. The dates of the conference coincided with the
    Nobel Prizes and Professor S. Iijima (who attended the conference as a keynote speaker) had two nominations, one for the Physics Nobel Prize and one for the Chemistry. Many journalists from newspapers and TVs attended the conference to cover the event, for Prof. S. Iijima’s speech and in the event of his award of the Nobel Prize. NANOHOST covered
    expenses – travelling, accommodation and registration fees – for the invited speakers as well as the members of CNSLab, the newly hired researchers for NANOHOST, and partly for collaborating members of TPCI/NHRF. The SC is grateful to the NANOHOST new-hired experienced researchers for the excellent organization of the conference. Subsequent to the
    success of Cnano’09, the NANOHOST team is organizing another international conference in celebration of the 25 year from the discovery of fullerenes, with the approval of the EU officer Mr Olivier Brunet (Email communications of 14-15/09/2009). The new event, Fullerene Silver Anniversary Symposium” FSAS-2010, will take place in Hersonisson, Crete, Greece, the period October 4-10, 2010. The website for the conference has been created and is operated (www.fsas.gr) where all appropriate information about the conference is posted. NANOHOST will cover expenses – travelling, accommodation and registration fees – for the invited speakers as well as the members of CNSLab, the newly hired researchers for NANOHOST, and partly for collaborating members of TPCI/NHRF. The SC of NANOHOST is very pleased that top names in the fullerene field have already accepted the invitation to FSAS-2010.
  10. An oral presentation was delivered by Dr. N. Karousis and four posters were presented by Dr G. Rotas, S. Economopoulos and G. Pagona in the 10th Congress in Chemistry Greece-Cyprus, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece (July 2-4, 2009).
  11. Dr. N. Tagmatarchis gave the following seminars, during his research visit in Japan in the frame of another project: (a) “Chemical modification of nanocarbon materials”, Chemistry Department, Nagoya University, (b) “Chemical modification of nanosized carbon-based materials”, AIST, Tsukuba, (c) “Functionalized carbon-based nanomaterials”, Chemistry Department, Tsukuba University, and (d) “Chemical functianalization of nano-carbon materials”, Chemistry Department, Kyoto University.
  12. Two oral presentations were delivered by Dr. S. P. Economopoulos and Dr. G. Theodorakopoulos and 7 posters were presented by Drs. G. Rotas, N. Karousis, G. Pagona, I. D. Petsalakis, I. Kerkines, D. Tzeli, I. Thanopoulos in the International Conference on Carbon Nanostructured Materials –Cnano’09, in Santorini, Greece, October 4-8, 2009.
  13. Dr. N. Tagmatarchis delivered the following invited presentations (a) “Soluble functionalized carbon nanohorns in donor-acceptor nanoensembles”, at the Workshop on Nanotechnology for electronic and photonic applications, in Athens, Greece, September 15, 2009, (b) “Supramolecular architectures with carbon-based nanostructured materials”, at the 3rd Hellenic Symposium in Organic Synthesis, in Athens, Greece, October 15-17, 2009, and (c) “Chemistry on graphene and nanotubes”, GDR2009 – Science and applications of graphene and nanotubes, in Catalonia, Spain, October 19-23, 2009.
  14. Dr. I. D. Petsalakis delivered an invited talk at the Chemistry Department of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, November 10, 2009, entitled “Calculations of photoinduced electron-transfer processes in chemical sensors and carbon nanohybrids”.
  15. Dr. G. Theodorakopoulos delivered an invited seminar, November 9, 2009, on calculations of excited electronic states of molecules to the research group of Prof. A. Wolf at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Heidelberg, Germany.
  16. The abstracts of the Cnano’09 conference were accumulated and presented to the attendees of the conference in electronic form. The abstracts contained all the scientific work presented in Cnano’09 and have already been forwarded in electronic form to the EC officer Mr. O. Brunet. Additionally, participants were encouraged to submit manuscripts to the Journal of Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Energy & Environmental Science of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Articles published, under conventional peer-review refereeing, will have a mark mentioning that
    were presented at the Cnano’09 conference.
  17. On December 1st, 2009, Dr. D. Tzeli received one of the 4th Greek Awards 2009 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO for “Women in Science”. Since 1998, 57 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO International Award Laureates from 27 countries have been recognized for their careers.
    The Program of National Awards/Fellowships already in place in 71 countries has up to now supported more than 500 young women to continue their research. As an extension of the international program L'ORÉAL Hellas and the Unesco National Commission have enacted the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Greek awards. Since 2006, 8 Greek young women researchers have received the L'ORÉAL -UNESCO for “Women in Science" national awards in Life Sciences and Material Sciences. Dr. Tzeli has taken part in different events related to the above award, such as on November 11, 2009 in an interview on video on her research, in early December 2009 interviews in 8 different magazines and newspapers, January 26, 2010 meeting with the local president of Unesco, and on January 29, 2010 interview shown on SKY TV. The SC is very pleased that the NANOHOST researcher has received such an honour and notes that Dr. Tzeli performs excellently in her research duties, while being a mother of 5 young children.
  18. Dr S. Economopoulos was invited to participate in the Science Café co-organized by the Evgenidio Foundation, Institut Francais d’Athenes and British Council. In this frame, he delivered a lecture entitled “Photochemistry and its importance in the environmental protection. New photovoltaics based on novel nanomaterials”. The event was covered in the electronic version of the newspaper Naftemporiki (www.naftemporiki.gr) as a video presentation.
  19. Dr. S. Economopoulos and Dr. G. Pagona were invited to participate in the website of Eugenides Foundation, related to science. They presented, in simple language, the most important parts of artificial photosynthesis and microwave-assisted synthesis. These two exhibits, will be presented in the site of the foundation, in an effort to bring state-of-the-art research efforts close to the public, bridging the gap between research and society. The various pieces of information concerning these two are broken into various related subjects linked to knowledge databases on the internet for easy access to anyone interested. Some video material may also be available once the website is fully functional.
  20. Dr. Tamar Stein of the Department of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, made a research visit for knowledge transfer to CNSLab for the period March 31- April 7, 2009. Dr. Tamar Stein gave a seminar on “The methodology of calculating charge-transfer states” to the CNSLab members.
  21. Dr. I. Kerkines attended the 13th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) in Helsinki, Finland, June 22-27, 2009 and delivered a poster presentation titled "Low-lying absorption and emission spectra of pyrene, dithiapyrene, and tetrathiafulvalene: a systematic comparison between ab initio and time-dependent density functional methods."
  22. Professor Julius Rebek, of The Scaggs Institute, La Jolla, USA, visited the CNSLab and gave a lecture, “Recognition and catalysis in deep cavitands”, to the TPCI on June 29,2009.
  23. Dr. N. Tagmatarchis visited Prof. K. Kostarelos (University of London, England) for training purposes, August 26 - September 09, 2009.
  24. Dr. G. Pagona visited Prof. A. Penicaud in Bordeaux University, France, for training purposes during January 17-30, 2010.

 
Publications

The following papers have been published:

  1. G. Pagona, A. S. D. Sandanayaka, T. Hasobe, G. Charalambidis, A. G. Coutsolelos, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Characterization and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Nanostructured Thin Film Composed of Carbon Nanohorns Covalently Functionalized with Porphyrins”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 15735;  
  2.  I. D. Petsalakis, N. N. Lathiotakis and G. Theodorakopoulos, Theoretical study on tertiary amine-fluorophore photoinduced electron transfer (PET) systems, J. Mol. Struct. THEOCHEM 2008, 867, 64;
  3.  I. D. Petsalakis and G. Theodorakopoulos, “Photoinduced charge transfer in fullerene–donor dyads: A theoretical study” Chem. Phys. Lett. 2008, 466, 189; 
  4. I. Thanopoulos, E. Paspalakis and V. Yannopapas, "Optical switching of electric charge transfer pathways in porphyrin: a light-controlled nanoscale current router", Nanotechnology 2008, 19, 445202;
  5. G. Rotas, N. Tagmatarchis, “Regioselective Triphenylamine-Tether-Directed Synthesis of [60]Fullerene Bis-Adducts”, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 398;
  6. I. Thanopoulos, P. Kral, M. Shapiro, and E. Paspalakis, "Optical Control of Molecular Switches" J. Mod. Opt. 2009, 56, 686.
  7. G. Mountrichas, T. Ichihashi, S. Pispas, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Solubilization of carbon nanohorns by block polyelectrolyte adsorption and templated formation of gold nanoparticles” J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 5444;
  8. D. Tzeli, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, “Theoretical study of adsorption of group IIIA nitrides on Si(111)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 5563;
  9. K. Ghosh, G. Masanta, R. Fröhlich, I. D. Petsalakis, G.Theodorakopoulos, “Triphenylamine-based receptors in selective recognition of dicarboxylic acids”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113, 7800;
  10. I. D. Petsalakis, I. S. K. Kerkines, N. N. Lathiotakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, “Emitting and electron-transfer electronic states of tertiary aminefluorophore sensor systems”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 2009, 474, 278;
  11. R. Zalesny, O. Loboda, K. Iliopoulos, G. Chatzikyriakos, S. Couris, G. Rotas, N. Tagmatarchis, A. Avramopoulos, M. G. Papadopoulos, “Linear and nonlinear optical properties of triphenylaminefunctionalized C60: Insights from theory and experiment”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 373;
  12. N. Karousis, S. P. Economopoulos, E. Sarantopoulou, N. Tagmatarchis, “Porphyrin counter ion in imidazolium-modified graphene-oxide”, Carbon 2010, 48, 854;
  13. G. Mountrichas, A. S. D. Sandanayaka, S. P. Economopoulos, S. Pispas, O. Ito, T. Hasobe, N. Tagmatarchis, “Photoinduced electrone transfer in aqueous carbon nanotubes / block copolymer / CdS hybrds: Application in the construction of photoelectrochemical cells”, J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 8990;
  14. S. P. Economopoulos, G. Pagona, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Solvent-free microwave-assisted Bingel reaction in carbon nanohorns”, J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 7326;
  15. N. Karousis, R. M. Papi, A. Siskos, P. Vakalopoulou, P. Glezakos, Y. Sarigiannis, G. Stavropoulos, D. A. Kyriakidis, N. Tagmatarchis, “Peptidomimetic-functionalized carbon nanotubes with antitrypsin activity”, Carbon 2009, 47, 3550;
  16. N. Karousis, T. Ichihashi, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Decoration of carbon nanohorns with palladium and platinum nanoparticles”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechn. 2009, 9, 6047;
  17. D. Tzeli, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos “Theoretical study of adsorption and diffusion of group IIIA metals on
    Si(111)”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2009, 113, 13924;
  18. I. Kerkines, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, W. Klopper, “Low-lying absorption and emission spectra of pyrene, 1,6-dithiapyrene and tetrathiafulvalene: a comparison between ab initio and time-dependent density functional methods”, J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 224315;
  19. D. Tzeli, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, “Theoretical investigation of the ground and low–lying excited states of Gallium and Indium Silicides, GaSi and InSi”, J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 234301;
  20. I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, A. Grochol, P. Kowalczyk, W. Jastrzebski, “Theoretical study of highly excited 1Σ+ and 1Π states of NaLi and experimental observation of the interacting 51Σ+ and 61Σ+ states, Chem. Phys. 2009, 362, 130;
  21. K. Ghosh, T. Sen, R. Fröhlich, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, “Trans-pyridyl and naphthyridyl cinnamides as alternatives of urea in complexation of carboxylic acid and formation of water-templated assemblies in the solid state”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114, 321;
  22. D. Irimia, I. D. Petsalakis, G. Theodorakopoulos, M. H.M. Janssen, “Coherent oscillatory femtosecond dynamics in multichannel photodynamics of NO2 studied by spatially masked electron imaging”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2010, In press;
  23. N. Karousis, T. Ichihashi, S. Chen, H. Shinohara, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Imidazolium modified carbon nanohorns: Switchable solubility and stabilization of metal nanoparticles”, J. Mater. Chem. 2010, In press;
  24. G. Mountrichas, S. Pispas, T. Ichihashi, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, N. Tagmatarchis, “Polymer covalent functionalization of carbon nanohorns using bulk free radical polymerization”, Chem. Eur. J. 2010, In press; s) Y. Iizumi, T. Okazaki, Z. Liu, K. Suenaga, T. Nakanishi, S. Iijima, G. Rotas, N. Tagmatarchis, “Host-guest interactions in azafullerene (C59N)−single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) peapod hybrid structures”, Chem. Commun. 2010, In press.