George Fytas

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E-mail:   fytas@talos.cc.forth.gr

EDUCATION

10/1966-03/1971 : B.S. (Chemistry) (Greek National Scholarship awardee); University of Athens.

06/1975 : Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry); Technical University of Hannover, Germany, under Prof. Th. Dorfm_ller.

02/1984 : Habilitation; University of Bielefeld, Germany.

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

08/1975 - 11/1978 : Research Associate; Department of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld, Germany

03/1980 - 08/1983 : Research Associate; Department of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld, Germany

12/1978 - 03/1980 : Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Stony Brook, under Professor Ben Chu.

09/1983 - 12/1983 : Visiting Assoc. Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah Salt Lake City, USA.

01/1984 - 08/1985 : Visiting Scientist in Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P).

1986 - : Short visits (1 to 2 months each year) in MPI-P

1985 - : Department of Chemistry, University of Crete and Head of the Polymer Group of IESL/FORTH.

 

RECOGNITION

1988 : Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras

4/1998 : External Member of Max-Planck Society

 

MEMBERSHIPS

1986 - 1988 : Acting Chairman of the Chemistry Department, University of Crete.

1988 - : Member of the Research Council of IESL

1994 - : Regional Editor of Colloid & Polymer Science

1995 - : Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Polymerica

 

RESEARCH AREAS

Dynamic structure of molecular liquids. Local and global motions in amorphous solid polymers and polymer/plasticizer systems. Static and dynamic properties of polymer blends, copolymers, rigid rod polymers and soft colloids. Self assembly and phase transitions in multiconstituent polymer systems. Polymer dynamics in restricted geometries and on surfaces. New applications of the dynamic laser light scattering techniques.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Dissertation:"Relaxationsprozesse in fl_ssigem n-Hexan, Benzol and Cyclohexan", Technical University of Hannover, Germany (1975)

Habilitation: "Applications of Laser Light Scattering to the study of Molecular Motion in Bulk Polymers", University of Bielefeld, Germany (1983).

 

TOPICS

1. Dynamic Structure of Molecular Liquids

2. Characterization of Polymerization Processes

3. Conformational Properties of Polymer Chains

4. Dynamics of Concentrated Polymer Solutions

5. Collective Glass Transition Dynamics

6. Interdiffusion and Dynamic Critical Behavior in Polymer Blends

7. Block Copolymer Dynamics

8. Dynamics of Hairy-rod Polymers

9. Polymer Dynamics on Surfaces

 

REPRESENTATIVE RECENT ARTICLES

  1. G. Floudas, P. Placke, P. Stepanek, W. Brown, G. Fytas, and K.L. Ngai, " Dynamics of the Strong Polymer of n-Lauryl methacrylate below and above the Glass Transition", Macromolecules 28, 6799, (1995).

  2. G. Fytas, S.H. Anastasiadis, R. Seghrouchni, D. Vlassopoulos, J. Li, B. Factor, W. Theobald, and C. Topracksioglou, "Probing Collective Motions of Terminally Anchored Polymers", Science 274, 2041, (1996).

  3. N. Boudenne, S.H. Anastasiadis, G. Fytas, M. Xenidou, N. Hadjichristidis, A.N. Semenov, and G. Fleischer, "Thermodynamic Effects on Internal Relaxation in Diblock Copolymers", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 506, (1996).

  4. G. Petekidis, D. Vlassopoulos, G. Fytas, and G. Fleischer "Dynamics of Hairy-Rod Polymers: Semidilute Regime", Macromolecules (1997).

  5. R. Seghrouchni, G. Petekidis, D. Vlassopoulos, G. Fytas, A.N. Semenov, J. Roovers and G. Fleischer, "Dynamic Structure of Multiarm Star Polymers in the Ordering Region", Europhys. Lett. 42, 271 (1998)