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C
onstantinos M. Paleos was born in Chios, Greece and obtained his B.S. in chemistry from Athens University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 1973, after 3 years with Amoco Chemicals and Motor Oil, he joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry at NCSR Demokritos, where he was elected director of this institute for the periods 1994 1999 and 2001 2007. In 1991 1992, he was elected visiting professor at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg. His research activities focus on nanomaterials of supramolecular organized structure, including the synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals, the molecular recognition of liposomal aggregates, the preparation and characterization of multifunctional dendritic polymers, liposomes, drug and gene delivery systems, and molecular transporters. Dimitris Tsiourvas is a research director at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at NCSR Demokritos. He studied chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (1984) and obtained his Ph.D. working in the area of polymeric liquid crystals (1992) under the supervision of Dr C. M. Paleos. He worked in the plastics processing industry (ARGO SA, Greece) for several years and joined NCSR “Demokritos” in 1995. His current research interests mainly include synthetic and physicochemical aspects of functional liposomes and dendrimers and their encapsulating and controlled release properties. Zili Sideratou is a senior researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at NCSR Demokritos. She holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Ioannina (1992) and a Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens in the area of hydrogenbonded liquid crystals. She continued her work as a project chemist in the framework of a project funded by the European Commission. During the years 2001 2006, she was working as a researcher at Demokritos. Her current research interests focus on the preparation and characterization of functional liposomes and dendrimers and their applications as drug and gene delivery systems.
Published: December 01, 2011 r 2011 American Chemical Society
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/la2045866 | Langmuir 2012, 28, 2307–2307
