Georgios Pappas

Alumni and Former Staff

​​​Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthopoulos Group

Location:

Building 5, level 3, Office 3287-WS17

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Biography

Born in Athens (Greece) and raised in Agios Nikolaos on the island of Crete (Greece) where I finished the school. I spent my childhood and teenage years playing on the golden sand and swimming in the turquoise water of the beach next to my home. Always, fascinated by the technological advances of humanity and the future vision of our society. This, along with my curiosity about the physical phenomena that we observe as humans since we are born, triggered my desire for Physical Sciences from the early stages of my life. I spend my free time playing tennis and windsurfing. I listen to rock, old-school hip-hop and rap, and jazz music while I am into DJing with techno and house grooves. 

Research Interests

Materials chemistry, energy materials, organophosphates, covalent organic frameworks, electron microscopy, materials characterization

Selected Publications

  1.  Aitziber Iturmendi, Helena Henke, George S. Pappas, Ian Teasdale, Chapter 2 - Polyphosphazenes: macromolecular structures, properties, and their methods of synthesis, Editor(s): Ewan J.M. Hamilton, In Developments in Inorganic Chemistry, Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Elsevier, (2021), Pages 47-101
  2. Guillaume Moriceau, Daniel Lester, George S. Pappas, Paul O’Hora, Joby Winn, Timothy Smith, Sébastien Perrier, Well-Defined Alkyl Functional Poly(Styrene-co-Maleic Anhydride) Architectures as Pour Point and Viscosity Modifiers for Lubricating Oil, Energy & Fuels 33 (2019), 7257-7264
  3. George S. Pappas, Chaoying Wan, Chris Bowen, David M. Haddleton, Xiaobin, Huang, Functionalization of BaTiO3 nanoparticles with electron insulating and conducting organophosphazene-based hybrid materials, RSC Advances 32 (2017), 19674-1968.  DOI: 10.1039/c7ra02186k
  4. Melanie J. Loveridge, Michael J. Lain, Qianye Huang, Chaoying Wan, Alexander J.      Roberts, George S. Pappas, Rohit Bhagat, Enhancing cycling durability of Li-ion batteries with hierarchical structured silicon-graphene hybrid anodes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 44 (2016), 30677-30685.  DOI: 10.1039/C6CP06788C
  5. George S. Pappas, Stefania Ferrari, Xiaobin Huang, Rohit Bhagat, David M. Haddleton and Chaoying Wan, Heteroatom Doped-Carbon Nanospheres as Anodes in Lithium Ion Batteries, Materials 9 (2016) 35. DOI: 10.3390/ma9010035
  6. Athina Anastasaki, Vasiliki Nikolaou, Gabit Nurumbetov, Nghia P. Truong, George S. Pappas, Nikolaos G. Engelis, John F. Quinn, Michael R. Whittaker, Thomas P. Davis, and David M. Haddleton, Synthesis of Well-Defined Poly(acrylates) in Ionic Liquids via Copper(II)-Mediated Photoinduced Living Radical Polymerization, Macromolecules 48 (2015) 5140−5147. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01192
  7. George S. Pappas*, Stefania Ferrari and Chaoying Wan, Recent Advances in Graphene-based Materials for Lithium Batteries, Current Organic Chemistry 19 (2015) 1838-1849.  DOI: 10.2174/1385272819666150526010249 (Invited contribution to a special issue)

Education

  • 2017 Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering. International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
  • 2012 Master of Science in Polymers Science and its Applications. Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
  • 2010 Bachelor of Science in Materials Science. Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece. 

Professional Profile

  • 2022-Today: Postdoctoral Researcher, Solar Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2019-2021: “Lise Meitner” Research Fellow, Institut für Chemie der Polymere, JKU, Linz, Austria
  • 2018-2019: Research Fellow, at the Energy Innovation Centre, WMG, University of Warwick, UK.
  • 2013-2017: PhD researcher at the International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing, WMG, University of Warwick, UK.
  • 2009-2013: Research associate at the INN, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Greece.
  • 2006-2009: Research trainee at the INN, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Greece

Awards

2019 “Lise Meitner” Research Fellowship 

KAUST Affiliations

KAUST Solar Center

Research Interests Keywords

materials chemistry Energy materials Organophosphazenes Covalent organic frameworks Electron microscopy materials characterization