Research activities

Materials research at the Department of Materials Science and Technology covers a broad spectrum of material systems, applications and technical approaches with the common goal of fundamental understanding of materials properties which will allow the development of new materials and innovative technologies. Our researchers are carrying out cutting edge work, both theoretical and experimental aimed in a broad research area covering soft matter, biomaterials, semiconductors, optoelectronic and magnetic materials. Increasingly materials scientists and engineers focus on the control of atomic and mesoscopic scale structures in order to tailor materials properties. This focus has pushed our discipline to the forefront of developing and applying new tools to observe and manipulate matter at the smallest scales.

Interdisciplinary research in the Department focuses in six areas:

Research Laboratories

• Laboratory of Biomaterials and Bioengineering. It comprises:
  • Natural Biomaterials (Mitraki)
  • Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering (Chatzinikolaidou)
• Laboratory of Optoelectronics. It comprises:
  • Laboratory of Microelectronics (Pelekanos, Savvidis)
  • Laboratory of Laser—Matter Interaction (Papazoglou-Tzortzakis)
  • Laboratory of Spectroscopy (Kioseoglou)
• Laboratory of Polymer and Colloid Science (Petekidis, Vlassopoulos)
• Laboratory of Materials Chemistry. It comprises:
  • Composition of Inorganic Materials (Armatas)
  • Composition of Organic and Hybrid Materials (Vamvakaki)
  • Supramolecular Chemistry - Synthetic Biomaterials (Velonia)
• Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Materials Science. It comprises:
  • Photonic, Phononic and Meta-Materials (Kafesaki)
  • Computational Materials Science (Kopidakis-Remediakis)
  • Magnetic Materials (Lyberatos)