Elissaios Stavrou
Associate Professor, Deputy Dean of Graduate Studies
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Group Website: MUEC Lab
Dr. Elissaios Stavrou joined GTIIT in March 2021 as an Associate professor. He received his Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, studying the structural response of functional glasses under variable thermodynamic conditions. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for solid state research (High Pressure group) and at the Geophysical Laboratory/Carnegie institution of Washington. In 2014 he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a staff scientist in the Materials Science Division. He was the Principal Investigator of programmatic and basic research projects and had received numerous awards for excellence in publication, for outstanding mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students and the Weapons and Complex Integration Gold Award. Very recently he received the prestigious Research and Development 100 (2020) award in the Process/Prototyping category for “Versatile Cold Spray”. Dr. Stavrou has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, including several in top journals: Science, Nature Chemistry and Communications, Physical Review Letters etc. He was invited to present his research at several conferences and colloquia, including the high-pressure Gordon Research Conference and the APS March meeting.
- High pressure and temperature
- Chemistry under Extreme
- Novel synthesis approaches and materials
- Ultrafast chemical dynamics
R. Leversee, K. Rode, E. Greenberg, V. B Prakapenka, J. Smith, M. Kunz, C. J. Pickard and E. Stavrou*: “High pressure chemical reactivity and structural study of the Na-P and Li-P systems”, J. Mater. Chem. A 8, 21797 (2020)
A. A. Adeleke, M. Kunz, E. Greenberg, V. B. Prakapenka, Y. Yao*, and E. Stavrou*: “High-pressure compound of argon and nickel: noble gas in the Earth’s core?” ACS Earth Space Chem.3, 2517 (2019), cover article, highlighted in ACS C&EN https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Argon-reacts-nickel-under-pressure/97/web/2019/10.
E. Stavrou*, Y. Yao, A. F. Goncharov, S. Lobanov, J. M. Zaug, H. Liu, E. Greenberg, and Vitali B. Prakapenka: “Synthesis of Xenon and Iron-Nickel Intermetallic Compounds at Earth’s Core Thermodynamic Conditions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096001 (2018)
B. A. Steele, E. Stavrou*, J. C. Crowhurst, J. M. Zaug, V. B. Prakapenka, and I. I. Oleynik*: “High-Pressure Synthesis of a Pentazolate Salt,” Chem. Mater. 29, 735 (2017), cover article.
W. Zhang, A. R. Oganov, A. F. Goncharov, Q. Zhu, S. E. Boulfelfel, A. O. Lyakhov, E. Stavrou, M. Somayazulu, V. B. Prakapenka, Z. Konopkova: “Unexpected stable stoichiometries of sodium chlorides,” Science 342, 1502 (2013), Highly cited paper in web of science.
A. G. Papadopoulos, N. S. Tagiara, E. Stavrou*, F. Li, G. Yang, and E. I. Kamitsos*: “Raman study of pure TeO2 glass under pressure: interplay between glass network transformations and electronic transitions”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 387 (2023)
E. Stavrou*, M. Bagge-Hansen, J. A. Hammons, M. H. Nielsen, B. A. Steele, P. Xiao, M. P. Kroonblawd, M. D. Nelms, W. L. Shaw, W. Bassett, S. Bastea, L. M. Lauderbach, R. L. Hodgin, N. A. Perez-Marty, S. Singh, P. Das, Y. Li, A. Schuman, N. Sinclair, K. Fezzaa, A. Deriy, L. D. Leininger, and T. M. Willey*: “Detonation-induced transformation of graphite to hexagonal diamond”, Phys. Rev. B 102, 104116 (2020).
E. Stavrou, S. Lobanov, H. Dong, A. R. Oganov, V. B. Prakapenka, Z. Konopkova and A. F. Goncharov: “Synthesis of ultra-incompressible sp3-hybridized carbon nitride”, Chem. Mater. 28, 6925 (2016)
X. Dong, A.R. Oganov, A.F. Goncharov, E. Stavrou, S. Lobanov, G. Saleh, G.-R. Qian, Q. Zhu, C. Gatti, V. L. Deringer, R. Dronskowski, X.-F. Zhou, V.B. Prakapenka, Z. Konôpková, I. Popov, A. I. Boldyrev H.-T. Wang: “Stable Compound of Helium and Sodium at High Pressure”, Nat. Chem. 9, 440 (2017), Highly cited paper in web of science.
B. A. Steele, S. M. Clarke, M. Kroonblawd, I-F. William Kuo, P. Pagoria, S. N. Tkachev, J. S. Smith, S. Bastea, L. E. Fried, J. M. Zaug, E. Stavrou*, and O. Tschauner*: “Pressure-induced phase transition in 1,3,5-Triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB)” Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 191901 (2019) cover and featured article.