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4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nikolaos Hadjichristidis

Professor, Chemical Science

D.Sc. University of Athens, 1979.

Ph.D. University of Liège, Belgium, 1971.

B.S. University of Athens, Department of Chemistry, Greece, 1966.

Research Interests

The research of Professor Hadjichristidis focuses on the synthesis of model including the narrow molecular weight, structural and compositional dispersity, homopolymers, copolymers and hybrids. His research focuses on polymers/polypeptides, polymers/CNT with well-defined complex macromolecular architectures (star, comb, cyclic, dendritic ) by using anionic polymerization high vacuum techniques, as well as combinations of different polymerization methodologies (AP, ATRP, TEMPO, catalytic,).

These polymeric materials are very important and ideal for:

  • Checking theories . For example, de Gennes tube theory and hierarchical motion in branched polymers.
  • Understanding and improving the properties of industrial polymers. For example, LDPE and polypropylene
  • High-tech applications (nanolithography, high temperature membanes and drug delivery.

Selected Publications

  • J.J.K. Kirkensgaard, P. Fragouli, N. Hadjichristidis, K. Mortensen. "Perforated lamellae morphology in novel P2VP(PDMS-b-PI-b-PS)(2) 3-miktoarm star quarterpolyme" Macromolecules, 44, 575, 2011.
  • A. Touris and N. Hadjichristidis. "Cyclic and multiblock polystyrene-block-polyisoprenec Copolymers by combining anionic polymerization and azide/Alkyne "Click" Chemistry". Macromolecules, 44, 1969-1976, 2011.
  • S. Junnila, N. Houbenov, S. Hanski, H. Iatrou, A. Hirao, N. Hadjichristidis, O. Ikkala. "Hierarchical smectic self-assembly of an ABC miktoarm star terpolymer with a helical polypeptide arm" Macromolecules, 43, 9071, 2010.
  • D. Priftis, G. Sakellariou, D. Baskaran, J. Mays, N. Hadjichristidis. "Polymer grafted janus multi-walled carbon nanotubes" Soft Matter 5, 4272, 2009.
  • N. Chan, J. Hoffman, V. Lee, H. Iatrou, A. Avgeropoulos, N. Hadjichristidis, R. Miller and E. Thomas. "Ordered bicontinuous nanoporous and nanorelief ceramic films from self assembling polymer precursors" Science 286, 1716, 1999.