RESEARCH INTERESTS

Electron Microscopy, Photoluminesence, Electical Characterization

ABOUT/BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Elias Sakellis received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics, University of Athens. He is Assistant Professor in the department of Physics in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Research Associate at the Electron Microscopy and Nanomaterials Lab (EMNL) of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN) at the National Centre For Scientific Research Demokritos. His research centers on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials—using electron-beam physical vapor deposition (e-beam PVD) and chemical/electrochemical routes—and on their structural, electrical, and optical properties for electronic and photonic applications. He also focuses on energy storage, particularly supercapacitors, developing innovative electrode architectures to improve power density and cycling stability. He is the co-author of more than 110 research papers with more than 1700 citations (h-index 21) and has extensive experience with electrical measurements across a wide range of materials. He also has expertise in structural, crystallographic, and electronic-structure characterization of nanostructures using SEM, TEM, HRTEM, and EELS, as well as dielectric-relaxation measurements as a function of temperature and pressure. He has co-supervised several graduate and postgraduate students and three PhD candidates. His teaching activities include delivering lectures and lab sections to undergraduate and graduate levels at the Physics Department and lab sections to the undergraduate students of the Geological Department of the University of Athens, as well as co-teaching in NTUA’s MSc Microsystems & Nanodevices program, within Laboratory Techniques for Nanomaterials and in NTUA’s MSc Physics & Technological Applications program, within Experimental Methods (Condensed Matter & Optoelectronics)

PUBLICATIONS

Loukopoulos, Stelios, Sakellis, Elias, Tsipas, Polychronis, Gardelis, Spiros, Psycharis, Vassilis, Kostakis, Marios G, Thomaidis, Nikolaos S and Likodimos, Vlassis, Visible-light-responsive Ag (Au)/MoS2-TiO2 inverse opals: Synergistic plasmonic, photonic, and charge transfer effects for photoelectrocatalytic water remediation Nanomaterials, MDPI, Volume 15, Pages: 1076, 2025 [doi]

Subrati, Mohammed, Lyra, Kyriaki-Marina, Spyrou, Konstantinos, Magdalini Toliou, Ilektra, Petrou, George, Manganiaris, Petros, Papavasiliou, Aggeliki, Sakellis, Elias, Athanasekou, Chrysoula P., Glisenti, Antonella, Sideratou, Zili and Katsaros, Fotios, Valorization of Industrial Waste Graphite Fines into Graphene Oxide-Based Nanohybrids ChemPlusChem, Volume 90, 2025 [doi]

Kalemai, Gion, Aidinis, Konstantinos, Sakellis, Elias, Filippatos, Petros-Panagis, Tsipas, Polychronis, Davazoglou, Dimitris and Soultati, Anastasia, Flexible Inorganic/Organic Memristor Based on W-Doped MoOx/Poly (methyl methacrylate) Heterostructure Nanomaterials, MDPI, Volume 15, Pages: 1707, 2025 [doi]

Piffet, Caroline, Thomassin, Jean-Michel, Stierlin, Emilie, Tchoumtchoua, Job, Fernández, Claudio, Mateo, Marta, Hernández, Leyre, Lyra, Kyriaki Marina, Papavasiliou, Aggeliki, Sakellis, Elias, Katsaros, Fotios K., Sideratou, Zili and Tsiourvas, Dimitris, Sustainable Antibacterial Chitin Nanofiber/ZnO Nanohybrid Materials: Ex Situ and In Situ Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation Nanomaterials, Volume 15, 2025 [doi]

Falara, Pinelopi P, Chatzikonstantinou, Nikolaos, Zourou, Adamantia, Tsipas, Polychronis, Sakellis, Elias, Alexandratou, Eleni, Nasikas, Nektarios K, Kordatos, Konstantinos V and Antoniadou, Maria, Optimizing Carbon Dot—TiO2 Nanohybrids for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Materials, MDPI, Volume 18, Pages: 1023, 2025 [doi]

Dallas, Panagiotis, Tzitzios, Vasileios K, Givalou, Lida, Tsipas, Polychronis, Basina, Georgia, Sakellis, Elias, Boukos, Nikos and Stergiopoulos, Thomas, Effects of ligand coordination on Ag 8 SnS 6 as a photoabsorber for thin film solar cells Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 13, Pages: 7996–8005, 2025 [doi]

Apostolaki, Maria-Athina, Christoforou, Marios-Konstantinos, Sakellis, Elias, Tsipas, Polychronis, Psycharis, Vassilis, Gardelis, Spiros and Likodimos, Vlassis, Tailoring plasmonic size in Au/WO 3 photonic crystals for photoelectrochemical water splitting and pharmaceutical degradation RSC advances, Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 15, Pages: 42687–42697, 2025 [doi]

Polydorou, Ermioni, Manginas, Georgios, Chatzigiannakis, Georgios, Georgiopoulou, Zoi, Verykios, Apostolis, Sakellis, Elias, Rizou, Maria Eleni, Psycharis, Vassilis, Palilis, Leonidas, Davazoglou, Dimitris and others, Sulfur-Doped ZnO as Cathode Interlayer for Efficient Inverted Organic Solar Cells Materials, MDPI, Volume 18, Pages: 1767, 2025 [doi]

Kalemai, Gion, Verykios, Apostolos, Chatzigiannakis, Georgios, Tsipas, Polychronis, Dimoulas, Athanasios, Psycharis, Vassilis, Sakellis, Elias, Boukos, Nikos, Likodimos, Vlassis, Karatasios, Ioannis and others, Highly Robust Double Memristive Device Based on Perovskite/Molybdenum Oxide-Sulfide Compound Heterojunction System Advanced Electronic Materials, Volume 11, Pages: 2400433, 2025 [doi]

Toumazatou, Alexia, Sakellis, Elias and Likodimos, Vlassis, Improving Visible Light Photocatalysis Using Optical Defects in CoOx-TiO2 Photonic Crystals Materials, MDPI, Volume 17, Pages: 5996, 2024 [doi]

Lyra, Kyriaki-Marina, Tournis, Ioannis, Subrati, Mohammed, Spyrou, Konstantinos, Papavasiliou, Aggeliki, Athanasekou, Chrysoula, Papageorgiou, Sergios, Sakellis, Elias, Karakassides, Michael A. and Sideratou, Zili, Carbon Nanodisks Decorated with Guanidinylated Hyperbranched Polyethyleneimine Derivatives as Efficient Antibacterial Agents Nanomaterials, Volume 14, 2024 [doi]

Pylarinou, Martha, Sakellis, Elias, Tsipas, Polychronis, Gardelis, Spiros, Psycharis, Vassilis, Dimoulas, Athanasios, Stergiopoulos, Thomas and Likodimos, Vlassis, Light concentration and electron transfer in plasmonic–photonic Ag, Au modified Mo-BiVO 4 inverse opal photoelectrocatalysts Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 16, Pages: 10366–10376, 2024 [doi]

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