Office Phone: (+30) 2810 391874
Lab Phone: (+30) 2810 391349
Email: ganton(AT)iesl.forth.gr
Mr. Antonaropoulos George
Ph.D. student

My aim is to optimize the growth of transition metal oxide hybrid nanocrystals by cost-effective and environmentally friendly, colloidal chemistry approaches and produce nanoparticle-assembled extended structures, with tunable properties that can yield materials for technological applications (e.g. sensors or memories). The produced nanoparticles are characterized by an armory of complementary methods, including, Spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-ray diffraction.

Ph.D. dissertation carried out at IESL-FORTH, entitled "Optimization of Iron Oxide Nanocrystals' Response: Structural Disorder and Magnetically-Mediated Functionalities" (2021); degree awarded by the University of Crete (Dept. of Chemistry)

Education

  • 2013, M.Sc. Materials Science and Technology; National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • 2011, B.Sc. Chemistry; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Interests

  • hybrid nanocrystals with synergistic electronic functionalities
  • cost-effective and environmentally friendly approaches to wet-chemisty synthesis
  • clean energy nanomaterials
  • nanochemistry
  • synchrotron X-ray total scattering
Vacancy-driven Non-cubic Local Structure and Magnetic Anisotropy Tailoring in FexO-Fe3-δO4 Nanocrystals
A. Lappas, G. Antonaropoulos, K. Brintakis, M. Vasilakaki, K.N. Trohidou, V. Iannotti, G. Ausanio, A. Kostopoulou, M. Abeykoon, I.K. Robinson, and E.S. Bozin
Phys. Rev. X , Volume:9, Page:041044, Year:2019, DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041044
Heat-Up Colloidal Synthesis of Shape-Controlled Cu-Se-S Nanostructures – Role of Precursor and Surfactant Reactivity and Performance in N2 Electroreduction
S. Mourdikoudis, G. Antonaropoulos, N. Antonatos, M. Rosado, L. Storozhuk, M. Takahashi, S. Maenosono, J. Luxa, Z. Sofer, B. Ballesteros, N.T. Kim Thanh, and A. Lappas
Nanomaterials, Volume:11, Page:3369, Year:2021, DOI:doi.org/10.3390/nano11123369
Tailoring Defects and Nanocrystal Transformation for Optimal Heating Power in Bimagnetic CoyFe1−yO@CoxFe3−xO4 Particles
G. Antonaropoulos, M. Vasilakaki, K.N. Trohidou, V. Iannotti, G. Ausanio, M. Abeykoon, E.S. Bozin, and A. Lappas
Nanoscale, Volume:14, Page:382, Year:2022, DOI:doi.org/10.1039/D1NR05172E