Laboratory Manager: Evangelos Giannakopoulos, Asst. Professor
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Tel. : 26310 58228
The Laboratory of Agricultural Physicochemistry aims at high-level interdisciplinary research, in matters related to the holistic management of the agro-biosystem from the cultivation level to the production, management and distribution of plant products and food in the context of sustainable agriculture for the benefit of the environment and society.
Research interests
The main research objects of the laboratory are focused on the following areas:
- Colloidal systems, ion exchange phenomena, adsorption-desorption models. Mineralogical composition of soils.
- Soil pollution with organic pollutants and heavy metals and anti-pollution technologies.
- Development of environmental simulation models on the fate, transport, control of ecotoxicity and genotoxicity from the disposition of xenobiotic substances within the biosystem.
- Plant growth modeling in changing environmental conditions (Plant growth curves).
- Application of analytical and spectroscopic methods of environmental monitoring of agricultural production
- Physicochemical evaluation of agricultural products of the collection & post-collection management and processing of agricultural foods in relation to the quality and safety of their quality characteristics.
- Physicochemical and biophysical processes in Agroecosystems. Applications of cold plasma technology in agriculture
- Water and soil quality assessment (field analyses: pH, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD, nitrogen, phosphorus, Humic substances, clays, oxides)
- Agricultural residual biomass management applications for the production of green materials for agricultural and environmental use.
- Synthesis and environmental applications of materials (production and distribution of micronutrients through nanofertilisers- in agricultural production, production of polymer soil materials, (organic matter, clay minerals and organoclays) that simulate the properties of natural soils.
- Isolation of phytoactive substances of high added agro-nutritive value (antioxidants) from plants.