RESEARCH INTERESTS

anti-bacterial surfaces, organ-on-chip, soft lithography

ABOUT/BIOGRAPHY

Dionysia Kefallinou received her B.Sc. Degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2014 and her M.Sc. Degree in “Microsystems and Nanodevices” from the Department of Physics in the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences (S.A.M.P.S.) at the National Technical University of Athens in 2016. Her master thesis entitled “Copper-coated, plasma micro-nanotextured superhydrophobic polymeric surfaces with antibacterial properties” was carried out at the National Center for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R.) “Demokritos” and led to the publication of two papers “Is there a threshold in the antibacterial action of Superhydrophobic Surfaces?” (ΑCS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017) and “Optimization of Antibacterial Properties of “Hybrid” Metal-Sputtered Superhydrophobic Surfaces” (Coatings, 2020). She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Physics in the S.A.M.P.S. at the National Technical University of Athens with her Ph.D. thesis theme being “Microfluidic devices for the study of cell behavior”. The thesis is carried out at the N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, in cooperation with the Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens (B.R.F.A.A.). She received a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (Ι.Κ.Υ.) for the support of her doctoral research for three years. Her research work on her doctoral subject has led to the publication of the paper “Fabrication of a 3D microfluidic cell culture device for bone marrow-on-a-chip” (Micro and Nano Engineering, 2020).

PUBLICATIONS

Zeniou, A., Kefallinou, D., Dimitrakellis, P., Xenogiannopoulou, E., Grigoriou, M., Dimoulas, A., Boumpas, D. T., Tserepi, A. and Gogolides, E., Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Functionalization of Sealed PDMS Microfluidics: Application to Capillary Pumping and Enhanced Cell Growth ChemPlusChem, Volume 89, Pages: e202400290, 2024 [doi]

Kefallinou, Dionysia, Grigoriou, Maria, Boumpas, Dimitrios T. and Tserepi, Angeliki, Mesenchymal Stem Cell and Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Co-Culture in a Bone-Marrow-on-a-Chip Device toward the Generation and Maintenance of the Hematopoietic Niche Bioengineering, Volume 11, 2024 [doi]

Dionysia Kefallinou, Maria Grigoriou, Vassilios Constantoudis, Ioannis Raptis, Evangelia Xenogiannopoulou, Athanasios Dimoulas, Dimitrios T. Boumpas and Angeliki Tserepi, Enhanced and stabilized mesenchymal stem cell growth inside plasma pre-treated and collagen-coated PDMS-based microfluidic chambers Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 466, Pages: 129658, 2023 [doi]

Kefallinou, D., Ellinas, K., Speliotis, T., Stamatakis, K., Gogolides, E. and Tserepi, A., Optimization of antibacterial properties of "hybrid" metal-sputtered superhydrophobic surfaces Coatings, Volume 10, Article Number: 25, 2020 [doi]

Ellinas, K., Kefallinou, D., Stamatakis, K., Gogolides, E. and Tserepi, A., Is There a Threshold in the Antibacterial Action of Superhydrophobic Surfaces? ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Volume 9, Pages: 39781-39789, 2017 [doi]

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