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Costas Nikiforidis

Assistant Professor, Biobased Chemistry and Technology at Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Natural complexes
  • - Supramolecular chemistry
  • - Biomass separation
  • - Chemistry
  • - Food chemistry
  • - Food physics
  • - Physical chemistry

Major works

Publications by dr. K (Costas) Nikiforidis

  • Van der Goot A.J., Pelgrom P., Berghout J.A.M., Geerts M., Jankowiak L., Hardt N., Schutyser M., Nikiforidis C.V. , Boom R.M. Concepts for further sustainable production of foods. Journal of Food Engineering, 168: 42-51, 2016

  • Nikiforidis C.V. , Scholten E. Polymer organogelation by chitin and chitin nanocrystals. RSC Advances, 47: 37789-37799, 2015

  • Nikiforidis C.V. , de Vries A., Scholten E. Natural amphiphilic proteins as tri-block Janus particles: Self sorting into thermo-responsive gels. European Physics Letters, 107(5): 5800, 2014

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About me

Costas Nikiforidis is an assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research. His research focusses on understanding the molecular interactions in biomass, leading to sustainable separations into valuable building blocks of advanced materials.