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Claus Rebholz is Professor of Materials & Surface Engineering and Manufacturing Processes in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus (UCY), where he heads the Advanced Coatings Engineering Group. Originally from the Danube Valley in southern Germany, he studied at the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen in the Black Forest (including industrial placements in Germany and Japan), earning a Diploma/BSc (1993) in Materials and Surface Engineering. He subsequently moved to the UK on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship and obtained his MSc (1995) and PhD (2000) degrees from the University of Hull in Engineering Design and Manufacture.
Prof. Rebholz spent six years with the Robert Bosch Group, first as a Research & Development Executive Management Trainee across several research centres in Germany, Japan and the US (1998-2001) and subsequently as Group Leader and Manager of a multidisciplinary profit centre in laser materials processing in Stuttgart/Germany (2001-2004), before joining the faculty at UCY. His research interests cover a broad range of topics, with particular emphasis on processing-structure-property relationships in tailor-made functional materials for automotive, energy, environmental and nanomanufacturing applications. Much of this work has been conducted in close collaboration with industry and international research partners. Among his recognitions, Prof. Rebholz received a European Commission Marie Curie Excellence Team Leader Award for his work on nano-heater systems for thermal nanomanufacturing. He serves as an Editor of the Elsevier journal Surface and Coatings Technology and holds Visiting Academic/Professor positions in Materials Science at Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), Materials Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and Materials at the University of Manchester (UK). As a father of six children, he takes great joy in producing a variety of foods with them and his wife using olives from their family groves.
Research in the Advanced Coatings Engineering Laboratory focuses on thin films and advanced materials, with the goal of contributing to the fundamental understanding required to synthesise tailor-made functional materials. The laboratory’s activities span a wide range of topics, with particular emphasis on the processing-structure-properties relationships in advanced materials for automotive, biomedical, energy, environmental and nanomanufacturing applications.
Examples include the deposition of nanostructured coatings by plasma-assisted physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques; the fabrication of reactive materials by PVD, ball milling, ultrasonic powder consolidation and high-pressure torsion; the synthesis of functionalised carbon-based materials with optimised porosity and pore size for improved hydrogen sorption and ion electrosorption, as well as gas separation and water purification; and the design and manufacture of novel tribological testing equipment and biomedical implants.
Selected Recent Publications (2021-2025)
- Kountouris, A., Efstathiou, K., Kostoglou, N., Manolakos, D. and Rebholz, C., “A New Recycling Technology to Produce Premixed Thermal Insulating Mortars from Polyurethane Waste Foams”, Polymers 17 (2025) 2233. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17162233
- Giannakoudakis, D.A., Ioannidis, I., Ioannou, K., Salonikidou, E.D., Florides, F., Zeiler, S., Kostoglou, N., Barczak, M., Triantafyllidis, K., Pashalidis, I. and Rebholz, C., “Ultrahigh surface area nanoporous carbon for air and water purification: Pushing the boundaries and unveiling the key physicochemical features”, Chemical Engineering Journal 524 (2025) 169457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.169457
- Mulla, B., Ioannou, K., Ioannidis, I., Pashalidis, I., Kostoglou, N. and Rebholz, C., “The impact of carbon felt thickness and de-bundled felt fibers on dye adsorption: The external surface matters”, Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment 10 (2025) 100254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scenv.2025.100254
- Stock, S., Trost, C.O.W., Seyfferitz, M., Selinger, J., Gupta, R.K., Tampaxis, C., Steriotis, T.A., Rebholz, C., Mitterer, C., Paris, O. and Kostoglou, N., “Transforming breakfast bio-waste into hydrogen storage materials”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 114 (2025) 519-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.03.002
- Mulla, B., Ioannou, K., Kotanidis, G., Ioannidis, I., Constantinides, G., Baker, M., Hinder, S., Mitterer, C., Pashalidis, I., Kostoglou, N. and Rebholz, C., “Removal of Crystal Violet Dye from Aqueous Solutions through Adsorption onto Activated Carbon Fabrics”, C-Journal of Carbon Research 10 (2024) 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/c10010019
- Knabl, F., Kostoglou, N., Terziyska, V., Hinder, S., Baker, M., Bousser, E., Rebholz, C. and Mitterer, C., “Short-Time Magnetron Sputtering for the Development of Carbon–Palladium Nanocomposites”, Nanomaterials 14 (2024) 164. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano14020164
- Guo, R.-F., Hsu, C.-Y., Kostoglou, N., Hinder S., Baker, M., Mitterer, C., Rebholz, C. and Wang, C.-Y., “Improved thermolytic dehydrogenation of LiBH4nanoconfined in few-layer graphene with different functionalities”, Materials Today Sustainability 24 (2023) 100486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtsust.2023.100486
- Ioannidis, I., Pashalidis, I., Mulla, B., Kotanidis, G., Ioannou, K., Constantinides, G., Kostoglou, N. and Rebholz, C., “Radionuclide Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Oxidized Carbon Fabrics”, Materials 16 (2023) 7479. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16237479
- Stock, S., Kostoglou, N., Selinger, J., Spirk, S., Tampaxis, C., Charalambopoulou, G., Steriotis, T., Rebholz, C., Mitterer, C. and Paris, O., “Coffee Waste-Derived Nanoporous Carbons for Hydrogen Storage”, Applied Energy Materials 5 (2022) 10915−10926. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01573
- Kostoglou, N., Koczwara, C., Stock, S., Tampaxis, C., Charalambopoulou, G., Steriotis, T., Paris, O., Rebholz, C. and Mitterer, C., “Nanoporous polymer-derived activated carbon for hydrogen adsorption and electrochemical energy storage”, Chemical Engineering Journal 427 (2022) 131730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.131730
- Renk, O., Tkadletz, M., Kostoglou, N., Gunduz, I.E., Fezzaa, K., Sun, T., Stark, A., Doumanidis, C.C., Eckert, J., Pippan, R., Mitterer, C. and Rebholz, C., “Synthesis of bulk reactive Ni-Al composites using high pressure torsion”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 857 (2021) 157503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.157503
- Kostoglou, N., Liao, C.-W., Wang, C.-Y., Kondo, J.N., Tampaxis, C., Steriotis, T., Giannakopoulos, K., Kontos, A.G., Hinder, S., Baker, M., Bousser, E., Matthews, A., Rebholz, C. and Mitterer, C., “Effect of Pt nanoparticle decoration on the H2storage performance of plasma-derived nanoporous graphene”, Carbon 171 (2021) 294-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.08.061
Last updated on 9 March 2026