• Recent Publications

  • Spectroscopy Studies of Anodically Formed Tungsten Oxide Films”. P. Falaras, M. Froelicher, M. Froment, A. Hugot-Le Goff, Microsc. Spectrosc. Electron., 9, 39-45, 1984.

  • “Caracterisation Structurale de Films Minces Formes par Oxydation Anodique de Titane et de Tungstene”. Falaras P., Froment M., Hugot-Le Goff A., Microsc. Spectrosc. Electron., 10, 4a-5a, 1985.

  • “Multichannel Optical Analysis for the Study of the Growth Kinetics of Films. Application to the Tungsten Oxidation”, P. Falaras, A. Hugot-Le Goff, Electrochemical Methods in Corrosion Research-Edited by M. Duprat. Materials Science Forum, Vol. 8, 501-508, 1986.

  • “Thin WO3 Anodic Films for Electrochrome Display Devices”. P. Delichere, P. Falaras, A. Hugot-Le Goff, Le Vide, Les Couches Minces, No 235, 109-113, 1987.

  • “Electrochromism in Anodic WO3 Films. I: Preparation and Physicochemical Properties of Films in the Virgin and Coloured States”. P. Delichere, P. Falaras, M. Froment, A. Hugot-Le Goff, B.Agius, Thin Solid Films, 161, 35-46, 1988.

  • “Electrochromism in Anodic WO3 Films. II: Optical and Electrochromic Properties of Coloured Hexagonal Films”. P. Delichere, P. Falaras, A. Hugot-Le Goff, Thin Solid Films, 161, 47-58, 1988.

  • “WO3 Anodic Films in Organic Medium for Electrochromic Display Devices”. P. Delichere, P. Falaras, A. Hugot-Le Goff, Solar Energy Materials, 19, 323-333, 1989.

  • “Self Assembly of Ion-Paired Electron Transfer Centers in a Clay-Modified Electrode”. D. Petridis, P. Falaras and T.J. Pinnavaia, Inorganic Chemistry, 31, 3530-3533, 1992.

  • “Incorporation of Anionic Species in Organoclay-Modified Electrodes”. Polycarpos Falaras and Dimitris Petridis, Electroanal. Chem., 337, 229-239, 1992.

  • “Photocatalytic Splitting of Water”. D. Katakis, C. Mitsopoulou, J. Konstantatos, E. Vrachnou and P. Falaras, J. Photochem. and Photobiol., A: Chem., 68, 375-388, 1992.

  • “Dye Sensitization of TiO2 Surfaces Studied by Raman Spectroscopy”. P. Falaras, M. Gratzel, A. Hugot-Le Goff, M. Nazeeruddin, and E. Vrachnou, J. Electrochem. Soc., 140, L92-L94, 1993.

  • “Synthesis, Cyclic Voltammetric and Electrospray Mass Spectrometric Studies of a series of Tris-substituted 1,2-Dithiolene Complexes of Tungsten and Molybdenum”. P. Falaras, E. Vrachnou, C. Mitsopoulou, D. Argyropoulos, E. Lyris, N. Psaroudakis and D. Katakis, Inorganic Chemistry, 34, 4536-4542, 1995.

  • “Origin of New Bands in the Raman Spectra of Dye Monolayers Adsorbed on Nanocrystalline TiO2”.  A. Hugot-Le Goff, P. Falaras, J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 142, No 3, L38-L41, 1995.

  • “Application of the electrospray mass spectrometric technique to molybdenum and tungsten dithiolenes”. Dimitris Argyropoulos, Dimitris Katakis, Emmanuel Lyris, Christinne-Anne Mitsopoulou, Polycarpos Falaras and Ersi Vrachnou, Chimika Chronika, New Series, 26, 143, (1997).

  • “Synthesis and electrochemical characterization of dithiolene complexes of tungsten and molybdenum”. P. Falaras, Ersi Vrachnou, C. Mitsopoulou, D. Argyropoulos, E. Lyris, N. Psaroudakis, and D. Katakis, Chimika Chronika, New Series, 26, 149, (1997).

  • “Synthesis and characterization of dichloro (2,2’-bipyridine-4,4’-dicarboxylate) bis (triphenyl phosphine) ruthenium (II) for efficient photosensitization of titanium oxide”. P. Falaras, A. Xagas and A. Hugot-Le Goff, New Journal of Cmemistry, 22, 557-558, (1998).

  • “Synergetic effect of carboxylic acid functional groups and fractal surface characteristics for efficient dye sensitization of titanium oxide”. P. Falaras, Solar energy materials and solar cells, 53, 163-175, (1998).

  • “Electrochemical and spectroscopic studies of 2,3-dihydroxy-benzoic acid, its oxidation products and their interaction with manganese (II), in dimethyl sulfoxide solutions”. D. Hatzipanayioti, A. Karaliota, M. Kamariotaki, A. Veneris, and P. Falaras, Transition Metal Chemistry, 23, 407-416, (1998).

  • “Electrochemical behavior of acid activated montmorillonite modified electrodes”. P. Falaras and F. Lezou, J. Electroanal. Chem., 455, 169-179 (1998).

  • “Fractal features of titanium oxide surfaces”. A. Provata, P. Falaras, A. Xagas, Chemical Physics Letters, 297, 484-490 (1998)

  • “Cottonseed oil bleaching by acid activated montmorillonite”. P. Falaras, I. Kovanis, F. Lezou, and G. Seiragakis, Clay Minerals, 34, 221-232 (1999).

  • “Preparation, fractal surface morphology and photocatalytic properties of TiO2 films”. A.P. Xagas, E. Androulaki, A. Hiskia and P. Falaras, Thin Solid Films, 357, 173-178 (1999).

  • “Raman resonance effect in a monolayer of polypyridyl ruthenium(II) complex adsorbed on nanocrystalline TiO2 via phosphonated terpyridyl ligands”, Anne Hugot- Le Goff, Suzanne Joiret, Polycarpos Falaras, J. Phys. Chem., Β., 103, 9569-9575, (1999).

  • “Photocatalytically deposited silver nanoparticles on mesoporous TiO2 films”. Elias Stathatos, Panagiotis Lianos, Polycarpos, Falaras and A. Siokou, Langmuir, 16, 2398-2400 (2000).

  • “Surface modification and photosensitisation of TiO2 nanocrystalline films with ascorbic acid”. A.P. Xagas, M.C.Bernard, A.Hugot-Le Goff, N.Spyrellisc, Z.Loizos, and P. Falaras, J. Photochem. and Photobiol., A: Chem., 132, 115-120 (2000).

  • “Novel Mn-based Mesoporous Mixed Oxidic Solids”. V.N.Stathopoulos, D.E.Petrakis, M.Hudson, P.Falaras, S.Neofytides and P.J.Pomonis, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 128, 593-602 (2000).

  • “Characterization by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of sol-gel TiO2 films sensitized by the Ru(PPh3)2(dcbipy)Cl2 complex for solar cells application”. P. Falaras, A. Hugot- Le Goff, M.C. Bernard and A. Xagas, Solar energy materials and solar cells, 64, 167-184 (2000).

  • Al-pillared acid-activated montmorillonite modified electrodes. P. Falaras, F. Lezou, P. Pomonis and A. Ladavos, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 486, 156-165 (2000).

  • “Bleaching properties of al-pillared acid-activated montmorillonite”, P. Falaras,  F. Lezou, G. Seiragakis and D. Petrakis, Clays and Clay Minerals, 48, 549-556 (2000).

  • “Catalytic Activity of High Surface Area Mesoporous Mn–based Mixed Oxides for the Deep Oxidation of Methane and Lean-NOx Reduction”, V.N. Stathopoulos, V.C. Belessi, C.N. Costa, S. Neophytides, P. Falaras, A.M. Efstathiou, and P.J. Pomonis, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, 130, 1529-1534 (2000).

  • “Titanium dioxide nanoparticle films  made by using poly(etylene glycol) oligomers as templates”. Elias Stathatos, Panagiotis Lianos and Polycarpos Falaras, Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science, 118, 96-99 (2001).

  • “Preparation, characterization and photocatalytic activity of thin-film TiO2 catalysts towards 3,5-Dichlorophenol degradation”. I.M. Arabatzis, S. Antonaraki, T. Stergiopoulos, A. Hiskia, E. Papakonstantinou and P. Falaras, J. Photochem. Photob. A: Chem., 149 (2002) 237-245.

  • “Synthesis and characterization of bdmpp-dcbpy-Ru (II) complex for dye-sensitized solar cells [where bdmpp is 2,6-bis(3,5-dimethyl-N-pyrazoyl)pyridine and dcbpy is 2,2’-bipyridine-4,4’-dicarboxylic acid]”. K. Chryssou, V.J. Catalano, R. Kurtaran, and P. Falaras, Inorganica Chim. Acta, 328, 204-209 (2002).

  • “Synthesis and characterization of K6[Ti(H2O)P2MoW16O61]·17H2O, a Ti(IV) derivative of monolacunary Wells-Dawson 16-tungsto-molybdo-2-phosphate”, Cristina Raţiu, Adrian-Raul Tomşa, Aglaia Koutsodimou, Polycarpos Falaras, Traian Budiu, Polyhedron 21, 353-358 (2002).

  • “Low-temperature water-gas shift reaction over Au/CeO2 catalysts”, D. Andreeva, V. Idakief, T. Tabakova, L. Ilieva, P. Falaras, A. Bourlinos and A. Travlos, Catalysis Today, 72 (2002) 51-57.

  • “A solvent-free composite polymer/inorganic oxide electrolyte for high efficient solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells”, G. Katsaros, T. Stergiopoulos, I.M. Arabatzis, K.G. Papadokostaki, and P. Falaras, J. Photochem. Photob. A: Chem., 149 (2002) 191-198.

  • “Roughness and fractality of nanostructured TiO2 films prepared via sol-gel technique”, P. Falaras, A.P. Xagas, Journal of Materials Science, 37 (2002) 3855-3860. 

  • “Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of a new bipyridine-bipyrazoyl (pyridine) thiocyanato-ruthenium (II) complex”. Katerina Chryssou, Thomas Stergiopoulos and Polycarpos Falaras, Polyhedron, 21 (2002) 2773-2781.

  • “Binary polyethylene-titania solid-state redox electrolyte for highly efficient nanocrystalline TiO2 photoelectrochemical cells”. T. Stergiopoulos, I.M. Arabatzis, G. Katsaros, and P. Falaras, NanoLetters, 2 (2002) 1259-1261.

  • “Composite silver/titania and gold/titania photocatalytic surfaces for efficient degradation of water pollutants”. P. Falaras, I.M. Arabatzis, Environ. Sci and Pollut. Research, 3 (2002) 57-58.

  • “Silver modified titanium dioxide thin films for efficient photodegradation of methyl orange”. I.M. Arabatzis, T. Stergiopoulos, G. Katsaros, M.C. Bernard, D. Labou, S.G. Neofytides and P. Falaras, Appl. Catal. B:Environ, 42 (2003) 187-201.

  • “Sensitization of TiO2 by polypyridine dyes. Role of the electron donor”. M. C. Bernard, H. Cachet, P. Falaras, A. Hugot – Le Goff, M. Kalbac, I. Lukes, N. T. Oanh, T. Stergiopoulos, I Arabatzis, J. Electrochem. Soc., 150 (2003) E155-E164.

  • ”Enhanced photocalytic activity of silver modified thin-film TiO2 photocatalysts”. P. Falaras, I.M. Arabatzis, T. Stergiopoulos, M.C. Bernard, Int. J. Photoenergy, 5 (2003) 123-130.

  • “Dye-sensitized solar cells: Optimization of the cell components”. Polycarpos Falaras, Current Topics In Electrochemistry, invited paper, 9 (2003) 157-163.

  • “Synthesis of porous nanocrystalline TiO2 foam”. Ioannis M. Arabatzis and Polycarpos Falaras”, NanoLetters, 3 (2003) 249-251.

  • “Photoelectrochemistry at SnO2 particulate fractal electrodes sensitized by a ruthenium complex.  Solid-state solar cell assembling by incorporating a composite polymer electrolyte” T. Stergiopoulos, I.M. Arabatzis, H. Cachet, and P. Falaras, J. Photochem. Photob. A: Chem., 155 (2003) 163-170.

  • “Characterization and Photocatalytic Activity of Au/TiO2 Thin Films for Azo-dye Degradation”. I.M. Arabatzis, T. Stergiopoulos, D. Andreeva,  S. Kitova, S.G. Neophytides, and P. Falaras, Journal of Catalysis, 220 (2003)127-135.

  • “Synthesis and Characterisation of two New Lanthanide Sandwich-Type Heteropolyoxometalates” Adrian-Raul Tomsa, Liana Muresan, Aglaia Koutsodimou, Polycarpos Falaras, Mariana Rusu, Polyhedron, 22 (2003) 2901-2909.

  • “Preparation, characterization of innovative nanostructured titania based photocatalysts and application to environment remediation”. P. Falaras and I.M. Arabatzis, Trends in Physical Chemistry, invited paper, 10 (2004) 79 – 85.

  • “Resonance micro-Raman spectrophotoelectrochemistry on nanocrystalline TiO2 thin film electrodes sensitized by Ru(II) complexes”,  T. Stergiopoulos, M.-C. Bernard, A. Hugot – Le Goff, and P. Falaras, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, invited-paid paper, 248 (2004) 1407-1420.

  • “Metolachlor photocatalytic degradation using TiO2 photocatalysts”, V.A. Sakkas, I.M. Arabatzis, I.K. Konstantinou, A.D. Dimou, T.A. Albanis and P. Falaras, Appl. Catal. B:Environ, 49 (2004) 195-205.

  • “Comparative studies of substituted ruthenium (II)-pyrazoyl-pyridine complexes with classical N3 photosensitizer: The influence of –NCS dye ligands on the efficiency of solid-state nanocrystalline solar cells”. T. Stergiopoulos, S. Karakostas, P. Falaras, J. Photochem. Photob. A: Chem., 163 (2004) 331-340.

  • “Capacitance probe of the electron displacement in a dye sensitized solar cell by an intermodulation technique: a quantitative model”. H. Cachet, M. Keddam, H. Takenouti, R. Antano-Lopez, T. Stergiopoulos, P. Falaras, Electrochimica Acta, 49 (2004) 2541-2549.

  • “Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of bis(5′-methyl-2,2′-bipyridine-6-carboxylato) ruthenium(II)”. Athanassios I. Philippopoulos, Evangelia Chatzivasiloglou, Aris Terzis, Catherine P. Raptopoulou, Pierre Tisnès, Claude Picard and Polycarpos Falaras, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 8 (2005) 162-165.

  • “Solid-state sensitized solar cells, using  [Ru(dcbpyH2)2Cl2]·2H2O as the dye and PEO/titania/I-/I3- as the redox electrolyte”. E. Chatzivasiloglou, T. Stergiopoulos, N. Spyrellis, and P. Falaras, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 161 (2005) 234-240. 

  • “Modified titania foaming materials for packed bed photocatalytic reactor applications”. I.M. Arabatzis, N. Spyrellis, Z. Loizoz, and P. Falaras, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 161 (2005) 224-228.

  • “Modification of TiO2 semiconductor with molecules bearing functional phosphonic groups: a 31P Solid State NMR study”. P. Falaras, I.M. Arabatzis, T. Stergiopoulos, G. Papavassiliou, M. Karagianni, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 161 (2005) 276-281.

  • “Incorporation of innovative compounds in nanostructured photoelectrochemical cells”. T. Stergiopoulos, I.M. Arabatzis, M. Kalbac, I. Lukes and P. Falaras, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 161 (2005) 107-112.

  •  “   2-Ethyl-1-hexanol based Screen Printed Titania Thin Films For Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”. D.S. Tsoukleris, I.M. Arabatzis, E. Chatzivasiloglou, A.I. Kontos, V. Belessi, M.C. Bernard and P. Falaras, Solar Energy, 79, (2005)v422-430.

  • “Efficient photocatalysts by hydrothermal treatment of TiO2”. A.I. Kontos, I.M. Arabatzis, D.S. Tsoukleris, A.G. Kontos, M.C. Bernard, D.E. Petrakis and P. Falaras, Catalysis Today, 101 (2005) 275-281.

  • Tomsa AR, Koutsodimou A, Falaras P, Bernard MC, Rusu M “New organotin derivatives of trilacunary keggin polyanions” SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY IN INORGANIC METAL-ORGANIC AND NANO-METAL CHEMISTRY 35 (2005) 651-659.

  • Speliotis T, Niarchos D, Falaras P, Tsoukleris D, Pepin J “Nd-Fe-B thick films prepared by screen printing” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS 41 (2005) 3901-3903.

  • C. Deslouis, P. Falaras, O. Gil, M. Jeannin, V. Maillot and B. Tribollet “Influence of clay on calcareous deposit in natural and artificial sea water”  Electrochimica Acta, 51 (2006) 3173-3180.

  • Nguyen Nang Dinh, Marie-Claude Bernard, Anne Hugot-Le Goff, Thomas Stergiopoulos and Polycarpos Falaras “Photoelectrochemical solar cells based on SnO2 nanocrystalline films” Comptes Rendus Chimie, 9 (2006) 676-683.

  • A.G. Kontos, M. Fardis, M.I. Prodromidis, T. Stergiopoulos, E. Chatzivasiloglou, G. Papavasilliou and P. Falaras, “Morphology, ionic diffussion and applicability of novel polymer gel electrolytes with LiI/I2”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 8, (2006) 767-776.

  • Adrian-Raul Tomşa, Aglaia Koutsodimou, Polycarpos Falaras, Marie-Claude Bernard, Vladimir Graban, Mariana Rusu, “Synthesis and Characterisation of New Rare-Earth Sandwich-Type Tungstoarsenates”, Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 36 (2006) 335–344.

  • Ying Xu, Wen-Kai Chen, Mei-Juan Cao, Shu-Hong Liu, Jun-Qian Li, Athanassios. I. Philippopoulos and Polycarpos Falaras, “A TD-DFT study on the electronic spectrum of Ru(II)L2 [L = bis(5′-methyl-2,2′-bipyridine-6-carboxylato)] in the gas phase and DMF solution”, Chemical Physics, 330 (2006) 204-211.

  • Jonathan Faiz, Athanassios I. Philippopoulos, Athanassios G. Kontos, Polycarpos Falaras and Zoe Pikramenou, “Functional supramolecular ruthenium cyclodextrin dyes for nanocrystalline solar cells”, Advanced Functional Materials, 17 (2007) 54-58.

  • D.S. Tsoukleris, A. I. Kontos, P. Aloupogiannis, P. Falaras, “Photocatalytic properties of screen printed titania”, Catalysis Today, accepted.

  • A. I. Kontos, A. G. Kontos, D. S. Tsoukleris, G. D. Vlachos, Polycarpos Falaras, “Superhydrophilicity and photocatalytic property of nanocrystalline Titania sol-gel films”, Thin Solid Films, 515 (2007) 7370-7375.

  • Nedeljko V. Krstajic, Ljiljana M. Vracar, Velimir R. Radmilovic, Stelios G. Neophytides, Miranda Labou, Jelena M. Jaksic, Reidar Tunold, Polycarpos Falaras and Milan M. Jaksic, “Advances in Interactive Supported Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Electrode Reactions” Surface Science, 601 (2007) 1449-1966.

  • A.O. Ibhadon, I.M. Arabatzis and P. Falaras, “The Design and Photoreaction Kinetic Modeling of a Gas-Phase Titania Foam Packed Bed Reactor”, Chemical Engineering Journal, in press.

  • Speliotis A, Niarchos D, Falaras P, Tsoukleris D, Pepin J, Meneroud P, Magnac G, Claeyssen F, Fermon C, Pannetier M, Biziere N, “Preparation of Nd-Fe-B magnets by screen printing”, Journal of Iron and Steel Research International 13 (2006) 405-410.

  • Christiana A. Mitsopoulou, Irene Veroni, Athanassios I. Philippopoulos and Polycarpos Falaras, “Synthesis, characterization and sensitization properties of two novel mono and bis carboxyl-dipyrido-phenazine ruthenium (II) charge transfer complexes”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, in press.

  • Antigoni-V. Katsanaki, Dimitris S. Tsoukleris, Polycarpos Falaras and Haido S. Karayianni “Preparation and characterization of nanocrystalline Pt/TCG counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells”, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, accepted.

  • D.S. Tsoukleris, T. Maggos, C. Vassilakos and P. Falaras, “Photocatalytic degradation of volatile organics on TiO2 embedded glass spherules”, Catalysis Today, accepted.

  • R. Hahn, T. Stergiopoulos, J. M. Macak, D. Tsoukleris, A. G. Kontos, S. Albu, D. Kim, A. Ghicov, J. Kunze, P. Falaras, P. Schmuki,"Efficient solar energy conversion using TiO2 nanotubes produced by rapid breakdown anodization - acomparison",  Phys. Stat. Sol. (RRL) 1 (2007) 135-137.

  • Evangelia Chatzivasiloglou, Thomas Stergiopoulos, Athanassios G. Kontos, Nikolaos Alexis, Mamantos Prodromidis and Polycarpos Falaras, “The influence of the metal cation and the filler on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells using polymer-gel redox electrolytes”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, in press.

  • Fahad A. Al-mutlaq, Pierre G. Potvin, Athanassios I. Philippopoulos, and Polycarpos Falaras, “Catechol-Bearing Dipyrazinylpyridine Complexes of Ruthenium(II)”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2007), 2121–2128.

  • Athanassios I. Kontos, Athanassios G. Kontos, Dimitrios S. Tsoukleris, Marie-Claude Bernard, Nicolaos Spyrellis and Polycarpos Falaras, “Nanostructured TiO2 films for DSSCS prepared by combining doctor blade and sol gel techniques”, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, accepted.

  • A.G. Kontos, T. Stergiopoulos, G. Tsiminis, Y. S. Raptis, and P. Falaras, “In-situ micro- and macro- Raman investigation of the redox couple behavior in dsscs”, Inorganica Chimica Acta, invited paper, accepted.