{"id":492,"date":"2024-03-12T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:38:53","slug":"lab-agricultural-physicochemistry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/laboratories\/lab-agricultural-physicochemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Agricultural Physicochemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/\" title=\"el\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/multisite-language-switcher\/assets\/flags\/gr.png\" alt=\"el\"\/> el<\/a>\n\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-217 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/vgiann.jpg\" alt=\"Evangelos Giannakopoulos\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/vgiann.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/02\/vgiann-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/>Laboratory Manager:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/evangelos-giannakopoulos\/\"><strong>Evangelos Giannakopoulos<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> vgiann@upatras.gr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tel. :<\/strong> +30 26310 58228<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>Laboratory of Agricultural Physicochemistry<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The main research objects of the laboratory are focused on the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colloidal systems, ion exchange phenomena, adsorption-desorption models. Mineralogical composition of soils.<\/li>\n<li>Soil pollution with organic pollutants and heavy metals and anti-pollution technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Development of environmental simulation models on the fate, transport, control of ecotoxicity and genotoxicity from the disposition of xenobiotic substances within the biosystem.<\/li>\n<li>Plant growth modeling in changing environmental conditions (Plant growth curves).<\/li>\n<li>Application of analytical and spectroscopic methods of environmental monitoring of agricultural production<\/li>\n<li>Physicochemical evaluation of agricultural products of the collection &amp; post-collection management and processing of agricultural foods in relation to the quality and safety of their quality characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>Physicochemical and biophysical processes in Agroecosystems. Applications of cold plasma technology in agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Water and soil quality assessment (field analyses: pH, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD, nitrogen, phosphorus, Humic substances, clays, oxides)<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural residual biomass management applications for the production of green materials for agricultural and environmental use.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Isolation of phytoactive substances of high added agro-nutritive value (antioxidants) from plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"parent":362,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-492","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions\/995"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}