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Nikos Tagmatarchis

Senior Researcher, TPCI/NHRF

Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute,
National Hellenic Research Foundation,
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave.,
Athens 11635, Greece

Tel.: +30 210 7273835
FAX: +30 210 7273794
Email: tagmatar

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Chemistry (Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry), University of Crete, Greece (1997)
Diploma in Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece (1992)

RESEARCH & TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

7/2006 - : Senior Researcher, TPCI, NHRF, Athens, Greece.
12/2004 - 5/2006: Collaborating Researcher, TPCI, NHRF, Athens, Greece.
1/2002 - 11/2004: Research Associate, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy.
12/1999 - 11/2001: Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Japan.
12/1997 - 11/1999: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, Sussex University, United Kingdom.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Chemistry and physics of new multifunctional carbon-based nanostructured materials - fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene materials.
- Chemical functionalization and characterization.
- Study of electronic, photophysical and biological properties towards nano- and bio-technological applications.
- Donor-acceptor hybrids for mimicking natural photosynthesis, solar energy conversion, photovoltaics, sol-gel, liquid crystals, non linear optics and drug and gene delivery systems.

EXTERNAL FUNDING
Coordinator and principal investigator (EU-FP7, EURYI-ESF/EUROHORCs, JSPS) or participant (EU-FP6, COST-ESF) in competitive international and national (GSRT-ΠΑΒΕΤ, ΕΣΠΑ) research projects, in collaboration with academic and industrial organizations.

CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

  • Over 130 announcements in international scientific conferences including several invited lectures
  • Organizer and chairman of the ''International Conference on Carbon Nanostructured Materials - Cnano'09'', 4-8 October, 2009, Santorini, Greece
  • Organizer and chairman of the ''Fullerene Silver Anniversary Symposium-FSAS2010'', 4-10 October, 2010, Crete, Greece
  • Advisory Committee of Workshop ''Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication, Nanoengineering and Nanoconstruction'' at the 8th International Conference on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies - NN11, 12-15 July, 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • Part of graduate courses in Organic Chemistry (Chem. Dept., Univ. Athens, 2010-2011)
  • Supervision of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers.

HONORS & AWARDS

  • European Young Investigator (EURYI) 2004 Awards, by EUROHORCs / European Science Foundation
  • Invitation by ''The Nobel Foundation'' to the Alfred Nobel Symposium, ''Energy in Cosmos, Molecules and Life'', Stockholm, Sweden (2005)
  • Invited by ''The Nobel Foundation'' to nominate scientists for the Nobel Awards in Chemistry (annually, since 2007)
  • Several invited talks at major international scientific conferences

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & ACTIVITIES

Member of the Association of Greek Chemists; Reviewer for scientific research journals in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine and materials science; Reviewer for scientific research proposals submitted to a) American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (USA), b) Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, and c) European Science Foundation (ESF); Invited board member: a) Current Medicinal Chemistry, b) Medicinal Chemistry, and c) Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, published by Bentham Science; Invited international partner of GDR-I (Group-de-Research) Scientific Coordination Network ''Science and Applications of Graphene and Nanotubes''; Organizer and chairman of the ''International Conference on Carbon Nanostructured Materials-Cnano'09''; Organizer and chairman of the ''Fullerene Silver Anniversary Symposium - FSAS2010''; Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of TPCI; National Contact Point for COST Action MP0901 ''Designing Novel Materials for Nanodevices - from Theory to Practice (NanoTP)''.

PUBLICATIONS

Over 130 original research papers in peer-reviewed journals, 1 EU patent, 6 invited review and highlight articles, 23 publications in refereed conference proceedings, 4 chapters in books and 1 edited book. More than 3300 citations and h-index=26.

Full list of publications

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. ''Graphene with covalently linked porphyrin antennae: Synthesis, characterization, and photophysical properties'', N. Karousis, A. S. D. Sandanayaka, T. Hasobe, S. P. Economopoulos, E. Sarantopoulou and N. Tagmatarchis, J. Mater. Chem. 21, 109 (2010)
  2. ''Exfoliation and chemical modification using microwave irradiation affording highly functionalized graphene'', S. P. Economopoulos, G. Rotas, Y. Miyata, H. Shinohara and N. Tagmatarchis, ACS Nano 4, 7499 (2010)
  3. ''Microwave assisted covalent functionalization of C60@SWCNT peapods'', N. Karousis, S. P. Economopoulos, Y. Iizumi, T. Okazaki, Z. Liu, K. Suenaga and N. Tagmatarchis, Chem. Commun. 46, 9110 (2010)
  4. ''Fullerene-coumarin dyad as selective metal receptor. Synthesis, photophysical properties, electrochemistry and ion binding studies'', G. Pagona, S. P. Economopoulos, G. K. Tsikalas, H. E. Katerinopoulos and N. Tagmatarchis, Chem. Eur. J. 16, 11969 (2010)
  5. ''Molecular recognition of La@C82 endohedral metallofullerene by isophthaloyl-bridged porphyrin dimer'', G. Pagona, S. P. Economopoulos, Takayuki Aono, Yasumitsu Miyata, H. Shinohara and N. Tagmatarchis, Tetrahedron Lett. 51, 5896 (2010)
  6. ''Current progress on the chemical modification of carbon nanotubes'', N. Karousis, N. Tagmatarchis and D. Tasis, Chem. Rev. 110, 5366 (2010)
  7. ''Regioselective triphenylamine-tether-directed synthesis of [60]fullerene bis-adducts'', G. Rotas and N. Tagmatarchis, Tetrahedron Lett. 50, 398 (2009)
  8. ''Alignment of carbon nanotubes in weak magnetic fields'', J. Tumpane, N. Karousis, N. Tagmatarchis and B. Norden, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 5148 (2008)
  9. ''Azafullerene encapsulated within single-walled carbon nanotubes'', G. Pagona, G. Rotas, A. N. Khlobystov, T. W. Chamberlain, K. Porfyrakis and N. Tagmatarchis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 6062 (2008)
  10. ''TerpyridineCuII carbon nanohorns: Metallo-nanocomplexes for photoinduced charge-separation'', G. Rotas, A. S. D. Sandanayaka, N. Tagmatarchis, T. Ichihashi, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima and O. Ito, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 4725 (2008)


 
   

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