Editorial Board

Daniel Lowy is currently working as Sr. Scientist at Flexel, LLC in college Park, MD, Washington D.C., USA.He has extensive experience in most topics related to electrochemistry, including electroorganic synthesis (electroreduction of activated olefins and of carbon dioxide), electroanalytical chemistry (ion-selective electrodes for surfactants and miniaturized reference electrodes to be used in corrosive aqueous solutions, or in aqueous-organic and organic media), microbial fuel cells, sea water batteries, nanotechnologies (including galvanic cells based on phospholipid vesicles and the quantized charging of gold nanoclusters), surface modification (with self-assembled monolayers and via layer-by-layer deposition), and galvanic cells operating with aqueous electrolytes. He has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 2 science books on nano-electrochemistry, and 10 chapters in edited electrochemistry textbooks. In addition, he co-authored 7 awarded patents (five Romanian and two U.S. patents).

Electrochemistry, Electroanalytical chemistry, Microbial fuel cells, Sea water batteries, Nanotechnologies, Surface modification and galvanic cells operating with aqueous electrolytes.

EDUCATION

North Carolina State University, B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1961 University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1965

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Chemical Engineer, Chemstrand Research Center, Inc., 1965-1967 Chemical Engineering Faculty, The University of Texas at Austin, 1967-present Chairman, Chemical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977-1985 Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas, 1985-2002 Editor, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 1986-present Director, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-present Ernest Cockrell, Sr. Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002-present

HONORS AND AWARDS

1982 Research Award (Society of Plastics Engineers)
1984 Phillips Award in Applied Polymer Science (Amer. Chem. Soc.)
1985 Materials Engineering and Sciences Award (AIChE)
1988 Elected to National Academy of Engineering
1989 Education Award (Society of Plastics Engineers)
1991 Turner Alfrey Visiting Professor at Michigan Molecular Institute
1993 International Award (Society of Plastics Engineers)
1993 Hocott Engineering Research Award (The University of Texas at Austin)
1994 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (North Carolina State University) 1994 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (The University of Texas at Austin) 1998 William H. Walker Award (AIChE)
1998 Malcolm E. Pruitt Award (Council for Chemical Research)
1999 E.V. Murphree Award (Amer. Chem. Soc.)
2000 Distinguished Service Citation (University of Wisconsin)
2000 Elected Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
2000 Elected Fellow of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division (ACS) 2005 Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology (NAMS)
2005 Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award (American Chemical Society)

various aspects of polymeric materials including polymer blends; membranes for separations, drug delivery, packaging; and polymeric nanocomposites. Synthesis, characterization, and performance of polymers are an integral part of the research in all these areas.

Reyes is currently a Professor researcher of Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chih. He received his undergraduate degree from Universidad de Guanajuato at León, Guanajuato and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, Michoacan. His research is at the intersection of materials and chemistry is focused on fundamental and applied studies in the processing and properties of complex material for energy, catalytic, environmental, and medical applications by chemical synthesis, Sol-Gel and electrospinning techniques. Current emphasis is on ceramics, composites, and porous materials. He has authored or co-authored over 45 peer-reviewed technical publications and has presented over 105 invited lectures and seminars.

Multilayered Ceramics, Ceramic Coatings, Nano and Micro Structure Control in Ceramics, Porous Ceramics, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Advanced Composites, Molecular Precursor Derived Ceramics, Materials Engineering, Material Characterization, Chemical Kinetics

José Francisco Sousa Bitencourt has graduation in Materials, Processes and Eletronic Components at Technology College of São Paulo (2005), master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Microeletronics (2008), and PhD in Sciences (2013) from the Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo, Brazil. Since the year of 2004, he has devoted his time to scientific research of luminescent properties of powdered covalent crystals, namenly feldspars, quartz and aluminum oxide. The latter was studied for applications in personal and environmental dosimetry when produced with several sets of parameters and concentration of doping elements. These materials were also obtained in the form of thin films using magnetron sputtering. Luminescent data was acquired using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) and Thermoluminescence (TL). Xray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Eletronic Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Eletronic Microscopy (TEM) and ICP-AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectroscopy) were also performed to analyse the physical properties of the materials produced in the duration of the project.

1. Radiation Dosimetry
2. Luminescent properties of covalent crystals
3. Thin films deposition and metalization
4. Materials Caracterization Methods
5. Optically Stimulated Luminescence
6. Thermoluminescence

Completed graduation from Maulana Azad National Institute Of Technology, Bhopal. Interest in material science field led him to start his research on magneto rheological field. He published his first international publication while only in his first semester. He has been acknowledged at various organizations for his research abilities by organizations like defense research and development organization (DRDO), India. He trained at DRDO in material science technologies and further carried his work on magnetic fluids. He was appointed as a judge by ISNEE, India, acknowledging his research credentials.  He is winner of three national awards. He is currently involved in two government projects and works alongside some of the famous scientists in the country. He is also executive of a Govt. funded research project called savishkarlive which aims to bridge the gap between industries and educational institutes at MPCST (Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and technology, M.P. , India)  He is a self-built entrepreneur and started his own R & D company in 2013 called inthinks. (www.inthinks.com) He is known for his knowledge of various fields like programming, electronics and the products that he makes combining them. His interests include Magnetic materials, Magnetic fluids, reverse engineering, programmable materials, micro electro mechanical systems, and product designing and operation research. He is an independent researcher and works govt. Institutions on project basis. • Institutes associated with: National Institute of technology, Bhopal. - MPCST - CRISP INDIA

Magnetic materials, Magnetic fluids, reverse engineering, programmable materials, micro electro mechanical systems, and product designing and operation research

Dr. MAGDI EL MESSIRY has done his BSc. and MSc. in textile engineering in Alexandria University with excellent first grade of honor. Egyptian government sent him to one of the famous textile institutes in Russia (Moscow Textile University) for obtaining his PhD degree in Design of Textile Machinery. On his return to Alexandria University in 1971, he was assigned as staff member and he got his professorship in 1981. He held position of the Vice Dean in period from 1994 to 1998. He worked as Head of Textile Department (2000-2002 and 2005-2011). He is considered as one of the main experts in the Textile Industry in Egypt. He was a member of the Directing Board of Spinning and Weaving Holding Company, the main Textile Company in Egypt. He is now a technical adviser to the Owner Board. Since 1998 till now he is a member of technical committee of the Egyptian Textile Consolidation Fund.
  Dr. Magdi participated in establishing several textile departments in Egypt and in Arab countries. He carried out several granted projects on international level with the colleagues from UK, France, Spain, USA, CZ, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. He is participating in scientific board in several journals. In the last 5 years he acted as an international expert in innovation and technology transfer.
 In 1999, Dr. El Messiry Also Received the Alexandria University Award for Scientific Achievement and in 2008 Awarded the Alexandria University Achievements.

Material science,Nano technology, Industrial applications

Dr.Dibya Prakash Rai is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Physics, Pachhuncga University College,Aizawl, Mizoram, India. He has done his Post doctorate in Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China. He has completed his Ph.D. in Mizoram University, India. He has received many awards like Gold Medalist in MSc. in physics, Nehru Award,INSPIRE-DST Research Fellowship. His Research Interests are Transition Metal based strongly correlated materials, Semiconductors, Insulators and Semi-metals.

1. Transition Metal based strongly correlated materials (Heusler compounds, half metals).
2. Semiconductors, insulators, semi-metals.
3. Thermoelectric materials and their properties (focusing on their eciency).
4. Theoretical techniques (doping of heavy elements, 2D single/multi atomic layers, superlattices,
nanostructuring) are implimentated to see the eect of the band energies near Fermi level.
5. Employing rst principles method (Density Functional Theory, DFT) for calculation.

Dr.R.Soma Shekar is currently working as Professor of Physics in RIE, Mysore. He has done his PhD in 1982 in the University of Mysore. He is a Member, Executive COuncil, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga. He is a recepient of Young Scientist Award, KAAS, Banglore, India. He is now selected as Emeritus Professor, University Grants Commission, New Delhi.

 X-ray studies of man-made and natural polymers, Optical and physical properties of crystals and liquid crystals

Dr. Nandu Chaure is currently working as Associate Professor at Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from University of Pune and University of Bhopal in 1993 and 1999, respectively. He has 24 years research and 15 years teaching experience for post graduate courses. He worked as post doctoral research fellow and teaching fellow over 10 years in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. He has supervised 06 Ph.D students and 07 M.Phil students in the area of research and development of thin film solar cells. Presently, eight PhD and 5 M.Phil students are doing research under his guidance in various areas. He has published over 100 original peer reviewed research articles in highly reputed journals. He is the guest editor of Journal of Materials : Materials in Electronics for the special issues on the “Materials for Photovoltaics applications” and as a member of editorial boards on several journals. He is also the potential reviewer of over 30 international specialized journals. His area of research is electrochemistry, electrochemical synthesis of metal, semiconductor, oxidies and polymer thin film, nanoparticles, Quantum dots, Nanocomposites. He also extensively works on Organic devices, organic field effect transistors, Light emitting diodes, memory devices on flexible and rigid substrates for e-paper and flexible display applications. High-k dielectrics and polymeric dielectric materials and their applications. Thin film solar cells and materials for solar cell applications, DSSC, Plasmonic, hybrid, perovskite solar cells, etc.

Synthesis and Characterization of Metal, semiconductor and oxide Quantum dots, Nanomaterials (shapes) and Nanocomposites by electrochemical, colloidal, CBD, sol gel, hydrothermal, solvothermal, sputtering etc. techniques, and their device applications. Organic devices, organic field effect transistors, Light emitting diodes, memory devices on flexible and rigid substrates for e-paper and flexible display applications. High-k dielectrics and polymeric dielectric materials and their applications. Thin film solar cells and materials for solar cell applications, DSSC, Plasmonic, hybrid, perovskite solar cells, etc.

Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of 40 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics, Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. His primary focus in materials science and engineering is on computational modeling of acoustics and photonic meta-materials. He is the author and coauthor of over 500 publications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences world-wide in over sixty countries. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow eighteen societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Royal Aeronautical Society, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics (CSAA), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics, Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization

Hemmige S. Yathirajan is currently working as Chairman of BOS in chemistry, UOM, Manasagangotri, Mysore.He has a total of 39 years of experience in Teaching and Research. He has completed his Ph.d in 1981 in UOM. He has done his Post doctorate in 1990 in the department of Chemistry, Washington University, USA. He is awarded with Sir CV Raman Young Scientist Award for Chemical Sciences in 2000. He is a member of American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Indian Chemical Society and IUPAC.

Chemical kinetics, Photochemistry, Radiation chemistry, Spectroscopy, Quantum chemistry, Molecular Symmetry, Disorder and Polymorphism in crystals and X-ray
Crystallography

Nithin Kundachira Subramani is currently associated as Assistant Professor in Post-Graduate department of Chemistry, JSSCACS, affiliated to University of Mysore, India. He has worked in the area of material science and Technology that includes, Synthesis of nanostructured materials for effluent treatment, polymer composites/nanocomposites for solar or energy storage applications, UV shielding polymeric coatings, Luminescent Down Converting Layers for solar cell applications, Piezoelectric polymeric films and so forth.
He has authored more than 10 research articles in reputed International journals including ACS (Journal of physical chemistry C and ACS Macromolecules), more than 15 conference papers; he has also supervised 15 M.Sc dissertations in addition to 08 M.Tech projects. He has received financial grants (research) from UGC (University Grants Commission) and VGST (Vision group of Science and Technology).
 

Synthesis of nano sized inorganic materials, Degradation of dye based effluents, Fabrication of Polymeric composites/nanocomposites, Optical and Electrical properties of nanostructured materials, Highly flexible UV sensors,Luminiscent solar concentrators, Polymer solar cells, Piezoelectric films, Green Packaging materials

Dr.Pruthviraj RD was born in Bangalore, Karnatak,India in 1974. Graduated in chemistry from the Bangalore University in 1997. Received the M.Sc. (1999) and Ph.D. (2010) degrees in chemistry. Currently working as Associate Professor in the department of Engg Chemistry, RajaRajeswari College of Engg, Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA.

Corrosion Engineering, Material science, Nano technology, Organic synthesis and biomaterials

Gururaja Udupa is currently associated with Department of Mechanical Enginnering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka as a Research Scholar. He obtained Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from P.E.S Institute of Technology, Mandya in the year 2001 and M.Tech in Manufacturing Technology from NITK surahtkal in the year 2006. His areas of intrest includes powder metallurgy,extrusion,Nano materials,composites, Functionally graded materials and vibration. He has five (5) international and national conferences papers and five (5) publication in international journal paper. He has been very passionate about teaching and he is a visiting faculty for a number of Engineering colleges in and around karnataka state,India for the last decade. Apart form that he also have a good experience of training students for competative exams and teaching for IIT-JEE. Many students have cleared JEE exam under his guidence and got selected for IIT and NITs.

Material properties

Dr.Fermin has done his Bachelor in Physics, Institute of University Education (IUPC)and his Master Degree in Physics, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research.apart form that he also had D. Sc. in Physics (Magnetism & Magn. Mater.), Federal University of Pernambuco

Magneto optic Kerr effect, Magnetization reversal, Coherent rotation, Magnetic anisotropies, Interface effects.

Dr. Rajesh R Wakaskar has received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2015. Currently, he is working as a Formulation Scientist at Insys Therapeutics. His current profile encompasses providing support in Pre-formulation and Formulation Development, Clinical supplies manufacture, API and Drug Product Stability and writing CMC sections of the IND and NDA that are submitted to the FDA for review and approval of pharmaceutical products. His graduate project involved the development of shell cross-linked polymeric micelles (nanocarriers) for the delivery of poorly water soluble anti-cancer agents such as Combretastatin A4 (CA4) to improve the existing solubility, efficacy, bioavailability of this drug, and subsequently, overall therapy of breast cancer. Based on his research, he has been awarded several honors in various podia and poster presentations at various conferences and is an author of high impact research articles in reputed journals. Currently, he’s serving as an expert reviewer for various Journals such as Journal of Drug Delivery, Science and Technology, Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics Journal, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, Journal of Applied Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biomarkers and Diagnosis (to name a few).

Developing and improving upon the existing concepts of drug delivery. Providing specific insights into the development of nanotechnology, both as a therapeutic and diagnostic tool. Aiding the successful transition of bench-scale science to clinical development of therapeutic products.

Dr. Van Chuyen Pham has received his Ph.D. in nanomaterials chemistry from Materials research center, the University of Freiburg in 2015. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral in the Laboratory for MEMs applications (Prof. Zengerle), the University of Freiburg. His current research interest is in the synthesis of heteroatom-doped graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as metal-free catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte fuel cells, and molybdenum sulphide as hydrogen evolution catalyst for water electrolysis. He has experience in fabrication of porous thin film of graphene and CNT based nanomaterials, synthesis of graphene sheets by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method, and chemical synthesis of graphene oxide (GO) from graphite and reduction of GO by thermal and chemical treatments, and also functionalization of rGO and CNTs. He successfully used functional graphene as electron transport and acceptor to enhance the energy conversion efficiency of inorganic-polymer hybrid solar cells. He has authored 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Heteroatom-doped graphene and carbon nanotubes as metal-free catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, synthesis of nanomaterials electrocatalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser, and electrochemistry.

Dr. Yonghao Zhao has completed his PhD in 2001 from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did postdoc. research at Max Planck Institute for Metal Research, Germany and Los Alamos National Lab. from 2001 to 2007. Then he did research as an assistant project scientist at University of California at Davis from 2007 to 2011. He becomes the deputy director of Nanostructural Materials Reseach Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology since 2011. He has published more than 140 papers in reputed journals and his papers have been cited over 6000 times. His research interests includesMechanical and thermal properties as well as deformation mechanisms of nanostructured metals and alloys, high entropy alloys, etc.

•    Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of high entropy alloys (HEA)
•    Bulk nanostructured metals and alloys prepared by severe plastic deformation (including equal-channel-angular pressing (ECAP), high pressure torsion (HPT), cryo-/cold-rolling/drawing, Accumulative rolling bonding (ARB), surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT), rotary swage (RS))
•    Bulk nanostructured metals, alloys, ceramics and composites prepared by cryomilling and powder sintering techniques (cold isostatic pressing (CIP), heat isostatic pressing (HIP), quasi-isostatic forge, spark plasma sintering (SPS))
•    Deformation physics of bulk nanostructured materials (strengthening, plasticity, dislocation, twin and grain boundary activities)
•    Advanced mechanical properties (strength, ductility, dynamic and fatigue properties) of bulk nanostructured materials
•    Recovery, recrystallization and grain growth of bulk nanostructured materials
•    Meta-stable phase transformation: solid-state amorphization, crystallization
•    Phase transformation (precipitation, segregation) in nanocrystalline materials
•    Thermal properties of nanocrystalline materials

Dr. Suwas Nikumb received Ph. D. in Laser Physics from Pune University, India in 1980. He is currently a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council, in London, Ontario Canada. His research background is laser micromachining using short pulse, diode-pumped solid-state lasers and their applications to micro devices and products. He is leading projects on laser texturing materials, laser polishing, superhydrophobic & Super hydrophilic and other functional surfaces, micro fabricated devices, sensors design & fabrication and laser joining of materials. He has published over 236 papers, technical reports and book chapters, and is co-inventor on 12 US/Canadian patents. He has been collaborating with industries, universities, academic institutions nationally and internationally. His research has already resulted in the formation of two new companies, Capital Laser Inc. and Medtrode Inc. in Canada. Dr. Nikumb has received several NRC awards including NRC’s Outstanding Research Achievement award, NRC-NSC Eminent Researcher and the Federal Partners of Technology Transfer (FPTT) award. Since 1995 he is appointed as an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Mechanical & Materials engineering as well as a member of the graduate research committee of the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Laser technology, Microfabrication, Laser micromachining, Nano-micro Sensors, Ultrafast laser material processing, Nanomanufacturing, Opto-electronic and Photonic devices, Graphene based flexible devices, Laser texturing of materials for tribological, esthetic and multi-functional surfaces and their applications to manufacturing sectors.