RESEARCH INTERESTS

Single crystal X-ray crystallography, Powder diffraction, Rietveld Method, Crystal Structure Property Correlations, Hard magnetic and Molecular Magnets

ABOUT/BIOGRAPHY

Dr Vassilis Psycharis (b. 1959) is Director of Research at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN) at NCSR “Demokritosˮ and Head of the Crystallography and Coordination Chemistry of Materials Group since 2010. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) during the period of 2009-2010. He was Supervisor of the Post-Graduate Student Program of INN and Member of the Graduate Student Program Supervisor Committee of NCSR “Demokritos” for a period of 14 years (2000-2014). His scientific interests and research activities cover almost all areas of research in X-ray crystallography, i.e. single crystal studies by X-ray diffraction methods; crystal structure analysis by the Rietveld Method using X-ray powder diffraction patterns; crystal structure/property correlation; crystal engineering; study of intermolecular interactions with Hirshfeld Surface analysis methods; organic superconductors; HTc superconducting ceramic materials; hard magnetic materials and molecular magnets; thin film and small particles studies by X-ray diffraction techniques, with XRR and SAXS methods; instrumentation for powder diffraction applications. He also uses occasionally large facilities, such as Neutron and Synchrotron, for structural studies. He has published 351 papers in international peer-reviewed Journals, 4 in peer-reviewed Congress Proceedings, and more than 100 presentations in conferences (14 oral presentations). He has more than 6000 hetero-citations and an h index of 43. He has been involved as coordinator or main researcher in 10 national projects with total funding for NCSR “Demokritos” group of approximately 1 M €uro since his employment at INN (July 1995). He is also a co-author in a chapter entitled "Magnetic Phenomena in Zero-Dimensional Transition-Metal Spin-Clusters" in the book "Magnetism and Superconductivity in Low-Dimensional Systems: Utilization in Future Applications" Nova Science Publishers NY, Ed. D.Stamopoulos, 2008, pp.1-78.  He has contributed after invitation the chapter: “Twining: Crystallography” in the Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering_2016 (DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803581-8.03209-4). Also is a coauthor in two chapters in the book “Single‐Molecule Magnets: Molecular Architectures and Building Blocks for Spintronics” Editor: Małgorzata Hołyńska (DOI:10.1002/9783527809929), 2019 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. He was appointed as co-Guest Editor in the Special Issue of Polyhedron (Vol. 28(15), 2009) entitled "The Impact of Crystallography on Inorganic Chemistry in Greece".  He is also appointed as Guest Editor in the Special Issue of Inorganics, 2020, entitled “Advanced X-Ray Crystallographic Structural Studies in Inorganic Chemistry”.  He was a member of the organizing committee and the main tutor of the 2nd School of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association with subject on Rietveld method, organized with the support of the International Union of Crystallography in 13-14 October 2004 at Athens University.  Member of the organizing committee of the international workshops on "Current trends in nanoscopic and mesoscopic magnetism" at Santorini, September 2006; Delphi, September 2008; Chalkidiki,, June 2012; Pylos, October 2016, Rodes 2019 and 8th NAGC Sparta, 2018 all organized in Greece. Member of the organizing committee of the 3rd Congress of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association, 22-24 September 2006, Patras, Greece and of the 10th  Congress of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association, 15-17 October 2021, Athens, Greece. Member of the organizing committee of the 1st Panhellenic Workshop on Inorganic Chemistry, 19-21 Novemebr 2021, Patras, Greece.

PUBLICATIONS

Fakharuddin, Azhar, Armadorou, Konstantina-Kalliopi, Zorba, Leandros P., Tountas, Marinos, Seewald, Tobias, Soultati, Anastasia, Tsipas, Polychronis, Schütz, Emilia R., Tzoganakis, Nikolaos, Panagiotakis, Stylianos, Yannakopoulou, Konstantina, Dimoulas, Athanasios, Psycharis, Vassilis, Kymakis, Emmanuel, Yusoff, Abd Rashid bin Mohd, Aidinis, Konstantinos, Schmidt-Mende, Lukas, Vougioukalakis, Georgios C., Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja and Vasilopoulou, Maria, A Triethyleneglycol C60 Mono-adduct Derivative for Efficient Electron Transport in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells† Chinese Journal of Chemistry, Volume 41, Pages: 431 – 442, 2023 [doi]

Dermitzaki, Despina, Panagiotopoulou, Angeliki, Pissas, Michael, Sanakis, Yiannis, Psycharis, Vassilis and Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Trinuclear Ni(2)Ln (Ln(III) = Dy, Ho) and Ni2Y Complexes with Schiff Base Ligands CRYSTALS, Volume 12, 2022 [doi]

Psycharis, Vassilis, Dermitzaki, Despina and Raptopoulou, Catherine P., The Use of Hirshfeld Surface Analysis Tools to Study the Intermolecular Interactions in Single Molecule Magnets CRYSTALS, Volume 11, 2021 [doi]

Dermitzaki, D., Pissas, M., Psycharis, V., Sanakis, Y. and Raptopoulou, C.P., Synthesis, crystal structures, magnetic and magnetocaloric studies of heterometallic enneanuclear Cu7Gd2 complexes Polyhedron, Volume 195, Article Number: 114960, 2021 [doi]

Nano, K., Zahariou, G., Ioannou, P.-C., Alam, M.M., Pantazis, D.A., Raptopoulou, C.P., Psycharis, V., Sanakis, Y. and Kyritsis, P., Electronic properties of the S = 5/2 Mn(II) complexes [MnPhC(O)NP(O)PPh2(N,N)(NO3)], (N,N) = phenanthroline, neocuproine, 2,2′-bipyridine Polyhedron, Volume 207, Article Number: 115374, 2021 [doi]

Koumpouri, D., Karatasios, I, Psycharis, V, Giannakopoulos, I. G., Katsiotis, M. S. and Kilikoglou, V, Effect of clinkering conditions on phase evolution and microstructure of Belite Calcium-Sulpho-Aluminate cement clinker CEMENT AND CONCRETE RESEARCH, Volume 147, 2021 [doi]

Gabriel, Catherine, Tsave, Olga, Yavropoulou, Maria P. and Architektonidis, Theodore, Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Psycharis, Vassilis and Salifoglou, Athanasios, Evaluation of Insulin-Like Activity of Novel Zinc Metal-Organics toward Adipogenesis Signaling INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, Volume 22, 2021 [doi]

Polyzou, Christina D., Nikolaou, Helen, Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Konidaris, Konstantis F., Bekiari, Vlasoula, Psycharis, Vassilis and Perlepes, Spyros P., Dinuclear Lanthanide(III) Complexes from the Use of Methyl 2-Pyridyl Ketoxime: Synthetic, Structural, and Physical Studies MOLECULES, Volume 26, 2021 [doi]

Banti, Christina N., Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Psycharis, Vassilis and Hadjikakou, Sotiris K., Novel silver glycinate conjugate with 3D polymeric intermolecular self-assembly architecture; an antiproliferative agent which induces apoptosis on human breast cancer cells. JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY, Volume 216, 2021 [doi]

Dermitzaki, Despina, Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Psycharis, Vassilis, Escuer, Albert, Perlepes, Spyros P., Mayans, Julia and Stamatatos, Theocharis C., Further synthetic investigation of the general lanthanoid(III) [Ln(III)]/copper(II)/pyridine-2,6-dimethanol/carboxylate reaction system: Cu(5)(II)Ln(4)(III) coordination clusters (Ln = Dy, Tb, Ho) and their yttrium(III) analogue DALTON TRANSACTIONS, Volume 50, Pages: 240-251, 2021 [doi]

Shegani, Antonio, Ischyropoulou, Myrto, Roupa, Ioanna and Kiritsis, Christos, Makrypidi, Konstantina, Papasavva, Afroditi, Raptopoulou, Catherine, Psycharis, Vassilis, Hennkens, Heather M., Pelecanou, Maria, Papadopoulos, Minas S. and Pirmettis, Ioannis, Synthesis and evaluation of new mixed "2+1" Re, Tc-99m and Re-186 tricarbonyl dithiocarbamate complexes with different monodentate ligands BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, Volume 47, 2021 [doi]

Ioannou, Polydoros-Chrysovalantis, Grigoropoulos, Alexios and Stergiou, Konstantina, Raptopoulou, Catherine P., Psycharis, Vassilis, Svoboda, Jan, Kyritsis, Panayotis and Vohlidal, Jiri, Structural and catalytic properties of the [Ni(BIPHEP)X-2] complexes, BIPHEP=2,2-diphenylphosphino-1,1-biphenyl; X = Cl, Br INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA, Volume 522, 2021 [doi]

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