Savvas Hatzikiriakos
Research Areas:
- Polymer processing
- Polymer rheology
- Non-linear viscoelasticity
- Plasticity
- Profile and film extrusion
- Rheological characterization
- Polymer processing instabilities
- Melt fracture in extrusion
- Processing aids
- Extrusion coating (wire, cable, sheet)
- Processing of polyolefins
- Processing of fluoropolymers
- Paste extrusion of PTFE
- Wire coating
- Food rheology (cheese and dough)
- Rheology of biomaterials
- Linear and nonlinear stability analysis of processing operations
- Tribology
- Nano-patterning of metallic and polymeric surfaces (superhydrophobicity)
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