Innovation Hub in clean Tech Energy and innovative materials for energy solutions and applications.
With emphasis on the development, production and exploitation of products and innovative ideas in Energy sector.
Clean Tech Innovation Hub, based in Patras Science Park, include a strong partnership between companies, university and research institutions aiming towards the research on advanced materials and in particular for energy applications.
For example, silicon, plasmonic materials and photovoltaics are found among the main research topic.
The Hub will give the opportunity to its members to know each other, to perform research on projects of mutual interest and apply towards EU funding.
The conception of innovation hubs is an initiative of Patras Science Park, which is an important opportunity for the Region of Western Greece, as it aims to strengthen research, technological development, innovative ideas and cooperation with interested business partners.
Patras Science Park with this initiative aims to assist where possible, to the reintegration of the Region through the penetration of the existing research / innovation ecosystem (which is highly developed in Western Greece) to industry's production, with the aim to increase competitiveness, create new jobs while limiting the phenomenon of brain-drain.
The scope of Clean Energy Tech HUB is to unite the efforts of its memebers in a common, strong collaborative structure - hub, creating new pathways of research, technology and business partnerships. Clean Energy Tech HUB wil aslo able to offer:
It is the energy that is collected from renewable resource, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportaion, and rular (off-grid) energy services. The needs for more energy increase year after year as the demands of the technological progress and human's activities are multiplicated. Renewables and natural gas are the bug winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagshop publication.
The activities and specific objectives of Clean Tech Energy HUB include:
The Clean Tech Energy Hub is founded by Patras Science Park, by professors of the University of Patras with research activity in the field, and by important cmpanies in the Energy and materials sector with a view to creating a cradle promoting business activity and development of new peroducts which will have a competitive advantage.
Founding members
Patras Science Park S.A, ' Manager Director - Business Developer, CLEAN TECH ENERGY INNOVATION HUB. - C.T.E.H Stadioy str. GR WWW.PSP.ORG.GR 2003 – 2016: Collaborator- Research Associate on High-Tech Materials Laboratory (LHTM) / Engineering Science Department / School of Engineering, Patras GR . 2006- 2016: , Responsible for International –National Relations and Collaborations at High-Tech Materials Laboratory (LHTM) / Engineering Science Department / School of Engineering, Patras GR . from. 2006-: Lecturer in sustainable infrastructure Development University of Oregon, U.S.A . from 2009- :Consultant on subjects: ''Photovoltaic innovation and Technology'' for Solar Cells Hellas S.A. 2008-2009 Member of Scientific Consulting Team for Gen. Secretary (West Greece Region), Areas of activity Department of Materials (Laboratory of west Greece Prefecture, D.E.S.E.) Author: -Advanced Science Letters -Journal of Nanoscience & -Nanotechnology -Journal of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials (JSIM) -Journal of Spintronics and --- -Magnetic Nanomaterials (JSM). - Appl. Phys. Letters and more. Co.Partners 1 University of Oregon, USA. Western Washington University, USA. 2 Huxley College of Environment, USA. 3 Duisburg Essen, Germany 4 Warwick University, United Kingdom 5 University of Linz, Austria. 6 University of Texas at Arlington, USA 6 Laboratory of Mechanics Materials& Machining, ATEI Patras, GR Research Institutes 1 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France. 2 Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 Grenoble INP/Phelma LMGP-MINATEC, France 4 Kyoto Club, ROMA, Italy 5 Mazinnov, Innovation Network 6 M.K.O - Ashoka Greece 7 Awishellas Grecce Areas of Activity: 1 RES Innovation/ field 2 Sustainable Infrastructure. 3 Industrial applications of new materials. 4 Renewable energy systems 5 Photovoltaics. 6 Environmental protection. - Courses -Various Lectures on: Sustainable Infrastructure, -Selected topics for Farsa community infrastructure design. -Sustainability principles applied to the design of individual and community energy supply, communications and other systems infrastructure. -Sustainable Energy Systems Design. -Evaluation and design of alternative energy systems for individual and community applications. -Renewable Energy Solutions -Various Projects -. Photovoltaics - Wind generators - Environmental Needs and applications. - -Geothermal Energy-Applications. -Materials Science. -Experience on proposals and preparation of various Research and Scientific pro. in National and International level. short list . .2005- 2008: Various presentations in” Renewable Energy and Environment” at High-Tech Materials Laboratory (LHTM) / Engineering Science Department / School of Engineering. .01 December 2006: Work shop in Athens, Case study, Farsa village project presentation. .December, 2006:“Sustainable Development Alternatives for the Historic Village of Farsa ”Report to the Farsa, Kefalonia, Greece Community Kefalonia Program in Sustainable Community Development. .2006-2007: Various presentations in Argostoli, Kefalonia, G.R, for Farsa community, Case study: Blue Village’ Renewable Energy Solutions for Farsa Village’. .2007, May Team leader of presentation: “Renewable Energy for Old Farsa” A comparison of Technologies. Team members:Michael Martin Carleton College, USA ,Raymond Neff University of Oregon, USA, Haley Sample, University of Oregon, USA. . O9/07/2008 Oral invitation: Work shop at A.Τ.Ε.Ι of Patras for the program studies development, Tourism and business Department of Patras. .S. D. Pappas, D. Panagakos and D. Trachylis, “Nanostructured Silicon for Photovoltaic Application”, Poster Presentation at the 2nd IC4N Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 28 – July 3, 2009.. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, D. Panagakos, D. Trachylis and C. Politis, “Photoluminescence Performance of SiO2 thin films produced by Reactive Radio Frequency Sputtering”, Poster Presentation at the 2nd IC4N Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 28 – July 3, 2009. Vassilios Pissas, Joanna Otto and, D. Trachylis, Constantinos Politis ‘Elastic properties of Nanostructured Glassy steels’ Poster Presentation at the 2nd IC4N Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 28 – July 3, 2009. V. Kapaklis, S. Grammatikopoulos, S. D. Pappas, V. Pissas, D. Trachylis, P. Poulopoulos, and C. Politis, “Surface tension and wetting on Si structures”, Poster Presentation at the 2nd IC4N Conference, Rhodes, Greece, June 28 – July 3, 2009. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis and C. Politis, “Photoluminescence from SiO2 thin films produced by Reactive Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering”, Poster Presentation at the XXV PanHellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 20 – 23, 2009. S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “Cost effective preparation of SiOx (x ≤ 2) thin films by Reactive Sputtering: Photoluminescence performance and control”, Presentation at the XXVI PanHellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Ioannina, Greece, September 26 - 29, 2010. P. Poulopoulos, S. D. Pappas, V. Kapaklis, E.Th. Papaioannou, P.E. Jönsson, A. Delimitis, A. Vlachos, S. Grammatikopoulos, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “Natural nanomorphous Ni/NiO multilayers: Growth and Magnetism”, Presentation at the XXVI PanHellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Ioannina, Greece, September 26 - 29, 2010. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, S. Grammatikopoulos, D. Trachylis, C. Politis, “Growth and experimental evidence of quantum confinement effects in Cu2O and CuO thin films”, Poster presentation at the 3rd IC4N Conference, Crete Island, Greece, June 26-29, 2011. A. Delimitis, S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “Structural investigation of SiO2 thin films”, Poster presentation at the 3rd IC4N Conference, Crete Island, Greece, June 26 – 29, 2011. P. Poulopoulos, S. D. Pappas, V. Kapaklis, P. E Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis, and C. Politis, “Growth and magnetism of natural multilayers”, Oral presentation at the 3rd IC4N Conference, Crete Island, Greece, June 26 – 29, 2011. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, P. E. Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis, and C. Politis, “Magnetic properties of naturally produced Ni/NiO multilayers”, Oral presentation at the BIT’s Annual World Congress of Advanced Materials-2012, Beijing, China, June 5 – 8, 2012. S. Grammatikopoulos, S. D. Pappas, A. Delimitis, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis and C. Politis, “Production and optoelectronic characterization of SiOx thin films”, Poster Presentation at the XXVIII PanHellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Patras, Greece, September 23 - 26, 2012. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, P. E. Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis and C. Politis, “Temperature-Dependent Magnetic Properties and Correlation between Magnetism and Structure in Naturally Produced Ni/NiO Multilayers”, Poster Presentation at the XXVIII PanHellenic Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Patras, Greece, September 23 - 26, 2012. Publications/ Articles in scientific journals 1. V. Kapaklis, S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, D. Trachylis, P. Schweiss and C. Politis, “Structure and magnetic properties of hcp and fcc nanocrystalline thin Ni films and nanoparticles produced by radio frequency magnetron sputtering”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 10, 6024 (2010). 2. P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, S. D. Pappas, D. Trachylis and C. Politis, “A simple cost-effective sputtering-based method for micropatterning and materials microstructuring”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 10, 6190 (2010). 3. V. Karoutsos, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, S. D. Pappas, D. Trachylis and C. Politis, “Magnetic Force Microscopy on Nanocrystalline Co Films”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 10, 6120 (2010). 4. P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, P. E. Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, A. Delimitis, S. D. Pappas, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “Positive surface and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in natural nanomorphous Ni/NiO multilayers”, Appl. Phys. Letters 96, 202503 (2010). 5. V. Kapaklis, S. Grammatikopoulos, R. Sordan, A. Miranda, F. Traversi, H. von Känel, D. Trachylis, P. Poulopoulos and C. Politis: “Nanolithographic templates using diblock copolymer films on chemically heterogeneous substrates”, J. Nanosc. & Nanotech.10, 6056 (2010). DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2010.2583 6. S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “A cost-effective growth of SiOx thin films by reactive sputtering: Photoluminescence tuning”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 11, 3684 (2011). 7. S. D. Pappas, V. Kapaklis, S. Grammatikopoulos, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis, E. I. Meletis and C. Politis, “Growth and experimental evidence of quantum confinement effects in Cu2O and CuO thin films”, J. Nano Res. 15, 69 (2011). 8. P. Poulopoulos, S. D. Pappas, V. Kapaklis, P. E. Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, A. Delimitis, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis, E. I. Meletis and C. Politis, “Growth and magnetism of natural multilayers”, J. Nano Res. 15, 95 (2011). 9. A.Delimitis, S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, P. Poulopoulos, V. Kapaklis, D. Trachylis, and C. Politis, “Microstructural investigation of SiOx thin films grown by reactive sputtering on (001) Si substrates”, J. Nano Research Vol. 17, p.p. 147 - 156, 2012 10. J Growth, structure and optical properties of CuNi-oxide films for nanophotonics and photovoltaics S. D. Pappas1, a, S. Grammatikopoulos1, b, P. Poulopoulos1,2 c, D. Trachylis1, d, M. J. Velgakis1, e , E. I. Meletis3, f , W. Schommers3, g and C. Politis1,. 17, 147 (2012). 11. S. D. Pappas, V. Kapaklis, A. Delimitis, P. E. Jönsson, E. Th. Papaioannou, P. Poulopoulos, P. Fumagalli, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis, and C. Politis, “Layering and temperature-dependent magnetization and anisotropy of naturally produced Ni/NiO multilayers”, J. Appl. Phys. 112, 053918 (2012). 12. S. D. Pappas, P. Poulopoulos, V. Karoutsos, P. Fumagalli, D. Trachylis . J. Velgakis, and C. Politis, “Observation of irregular labyrinthine magnetic domains with dendritic edges in a Co-rich CoCu alloyed film”, JSIM in press. 13. Natural nanomorphous Ni/NiO magnetic multilayers: Structure and Magnetism of the high-Ar pressure series S. D. Pappas, A. Delimitis, V. Kapaklis, E. Th. Papaioannou, P. Poulopoulos, D. Trachylis, M.J. Velgakis and C. Poilitis J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 14, 6103-6107 (2014) 14. S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, D. Trachylis, V. Kapaklis, P. Poulopoulos, M.J. Velgakis, "Cu-induced crystallization of Si in Cu-Si alloyed films and the formation of natural multilayers by oxidation", ", J. Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials (in press). 15. Growth, structure and optical properties of CuNi-oxide films for nanophotonics and photovoltaics S. D. Pappas, S. Grammatikopoulos, P. Poulopoulos, D. Trachylis M. J. Velgakis, E. I. Meletis , W. Schommers, C. Politis J. Nano Research Vol. 25 (2013) 61-66 16. Cu-induced crystallization of Si in CuSi alloyed films and the formation ofnatural multilayers by oxidation, S.Grammatikopoulos,S. D. Pappas, D. Trachylis,V. Kapaklis,P. Poulopoulos,Noorhana Yahya ,C. Politisand M.J. Velgakis journal of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials (JSIM) , Number 2, December 2013, pp. 136-142(7) 17. Hybrid AgAu Nanoparticles in GeO Matrix with Enhanced Plasmonic Resonances S. Grammatikopoulos, N.Lagos, M.M.Sigalas, P. Poulopoulos, S.D.Pappas, A. G.Chronis, V. Dracopoulos, D. Trachylis, M. J. Velgakis and C. Politis J. of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials Vol. 2, 1–5 2014. 18. Giant enhancement of photoluminescence of glass covered by self-assembled silver nanorings Sousanis,1,2 P. Poulopoulos,1,2* V. Karoutsos,2 D. Trachylis,1 and C. Politis3 in press. 19. Growth and Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Titania Films for Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics P. Poulopoulos · S. Grammatikopoulos · D. Trachylis · G. Bissas · I. Dragatsikas · M. J. Velgakis · C. Politis J. of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials Vol.3, 52-59 2015. 20. Giant Enhancement of Small Photoluminescent Signals on Glass Surfaces Covered by Self-Assembled Silver Nanorings A. Sousanis, P. Poulopoulos , V. Karoutsos, D. Trachylis and C. Politis Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Vol. 16, 1–6, 2016
