Professor II (Distinguished Professor), Dept. of Ceramic and Materials Engineering Rutgers University.
Editor, Journal. of Nanostructured Materials; Elsevier
Director, Laboratory for Nanostructured Materials Research (LNMR) Rutgers-AIMS

EDUCATION:

1974-1977 Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1972-1974 MS., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1967-1972 B.S. in Physics, University of Athens, Greece.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor Tsakalakos' research has focused on Nanostructured Materials with emphasis on interfacial phenomena in magnetic superlattices, processing of magnetic nanopowders, and ceramic nanocomposites. Other research activities include thin film technology with emphasis on fabrication of multilayers for a variety of applications such as x-ray optics (mirrors), magnetooptical and ferroelectric devices and mechanical properties, molecular dynamics of solid interfaces, micro mechanics of stress induced transformation in ceramic systems, spinodal decomposition and x-ray determination of microscopic and macroscopic strain distribution in inhomogeneous solids.  He has also investigated Mechanical Properties of Alloys with emphasis on fracture, fatigue and corrosion.
Professor Tsakalakos has published over 100 technical papers, has edited seven books, and has received several research grants including the NSF research creativity award.  He was awarded a Sigma Xi award in 1977.  He is a member of eight professional societies.  He has held offices in several societies, including MRS executive committees, Metals Science Club and AIME.  He has received NATO awards and organized ten international conferences.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• XRD strain and stress determination in nanostructured films and coatings T. Tsakalakos and M. Croft , NATO ARW on Nanostructured films and coatings, Plenum, 2000
• The size distribution of metal clusters produced in plasma-discharge hollow-cathode source. A. C Xenoulis, and, T.Tsakalakos, Nanostructured Materials, 12,311-314, 1999.
• The conditions for effective clustering in a plasma-discharge source identified via Monte-Carlo simulations. D. S. Vlachos, A.C.Xenoulis and Th. Tsakalakos, Nanostructured Materials , 12, 959-962, 1999.
• Extraction of ionized clusters produced in a hollow-cathode source. A.C.Xenoulis,et.al. and T. Tsakalakos, Vacuum 49, 113-119, 1998.
• Cluster Growth in Plasma. A.C. Xenoulis, G Doukelis and T.Tsakalakos, Nanostructured Materials , 10,1347-1354, 1998
• Size selection by cluster deflection in an electric field. A.C. Xenoulis, et.al., and  T. Tsakalakos, Nanostractured Materials 8, 771-784, 1997.
• Size selection by cluster deflection in an electric field   A.C. Xenoulis, et.al.,

 and  T. Tsakalakos, Nanostractured Materials 8 ,771-784, 1997
• Iron- fcc layer stabilization in [111]-textured iron-platinum multilayers
• M.Croft, T.Tsakalakos  et al., Nanostructured Materials 9,,413-42, 1997
• Influences of growth conditions on physical. optical properties. and quantum size effects of CdS nanocluster thin films       J. Lee and T. Tsakalakos, Nanostructured Materials 8,  381-398,1997
• Multidimensional optimization of a stochastic model for x-ray diffraction from superlattices

 C. Chassapis and T. Tsakalakos, Computer  Physics  Com. , 99,163-179,1977
• Structure and enhanced magnetization in iron-platinum multilayers. A. Simopoulos , T Tsakalakos et al. ,Phys. Rev. B, 54,  9931-9941, 1996
• Moessbauer Studies of Ultrathin Fe/Pt  Multilayers, A. Simopoulos, A. Kostikas, E. Devlin,
• A. Jankowski and T. Tsakalakos Il Nuovo Cimento D 18, 319-323, 1996
• Indirect Nucleation in Coherent Phase Transformations , H.Y.Wang, , T.Tsakalakos,

S.Semenovskaya,  and A.G. Khachaturyan, Philosophical Magazine, 74, 1407-1420, 1996
The Strain Energy of Elastically Inhomogeneous Bodies,  A.G. Khachaturyan,
  S. Semenovskaya, T. Tsakalakos, Phys. Rev.  B 52, 15909 (1995)
• Hyperfine Interactions and Magnetic Properties of Fe/Pt Multilayers. D.Devlin, A.Kostikas, A.Simopoulos,A.Jankowski,M.Croft and T.Tsakalakos NanoStructured Mater., 6, 699, 1995.
• Influences of the Interfacial misfit stress on Modulated Microstructures of InGaAsP/InP Heterostructures LeeJW, Kim TI,Tsakalakos T Journal of the Electrochemical Society 142: (1) 267-272 1995