Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Mohamed F. R. Hassanien

Prof. Dr. Mohamed F. R. Hassanien is currently working as a Professor of Biochemistry at Zagazig University (Egypt). Prof. Hassanien obtained his Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Food Chemistry from Berlin University of Technology (Germany, 2004). As post-doctoral researcher, Prof. Hassanien continued his research in ranked universities in different countries such University of Helsinki (Finland), Max-Rubner Institute (Germany), Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and University of Maryland (USA). In 2010, he was invited to be visiting Professor (100% research) at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, he was invited to be visiting Professor (100% teaching) in School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russian Federation.

Associate Editors

Prof. Carmel Breslin

Carmel Breslin is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University in Ireland. She completed a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1991 at the National University of Ireland Galway and worked for brief periods at the Centre for Advanced Materials at Penn State University and at the University of Southern California. Her research interests are in Electrochemistry, Materials Chemistry and Environmental Electrochemistry. She has published 97 research papers (available in Scopus) in areas encompassing electrochemical sensors, electro-Fenton, electrocoagulation, conducting polymers, hydrogels, cyclodextrins, graphene, MXenes, metal nanoparticles, pitting corrosion and corrosion protection.

Prof. Mostafa Rahimnejad

Prof. Mostafa Rahimnejad (Ph.D. 2011 from Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (BNUT), Iran) has gained extensive experience in a wide range of Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Fuel cell, Biosensor, Fermentation and Chemical engineering. He is a member of the Iranian Biofuel Committee (2014), Board of Founders of the Iranian Biofuel Union (2014), Head of Renewable Energies and Biofuels Research Centre (2015-present) and also was the Education Dean of the Deptartment of Chemical Engineering at BNUT (2012-2014). His publications are mostly in the areas of nanomaterials science, biofuels, fuel cell, microbial fuel cell, purification of wastewater, lab-on-a-chip devices and chemical engineering.

Prof. Gustaaf Schoukens

Prof. Gustaaf Schoukens was professor of polymer technology at the Ghent University (Belgium), faculty of Engineering, retired since October 1, 2014. Polymer technology in general and polymer processing, including synthetic and biopolymers, in particular are the main leads in his research program and of its publications. The main research topics are now the development of artificial turf for sport applications and the development of biopolymers based on chitin or chitosan with biomedical properties. A more recent research is the study of nanostructures, especially nanoparticles obtained by reaction engineering. These nanoparticles are already used in large quantities for the coating of paper and paperboards. He is an expert in the production of monofilaments for artificial sport applications and founded ERCAT (European Research Centre for Artificial Turf). He is also author of many articles about the production and properties of monofilaments and also about the characteristics of artificial turf fields and their interaction with the players on such fields.

Dr. Alessandro Buccolieri

Alessandro Buccolieri was born in 1976. He obtained the school-leaving certificate in Chemistry in 1995; in 2001 he achieved the doctor's degree in Chemistry at the University of Bari, Italy and in 2007 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Salento, Italy. Since April 1, 2003 he works as Chemical Laboratory Technician at the University of Salento. He carries out his research activity in the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and analysis in environmental chemistry, cultural heritage, materials science and food chemistry. The analytical techniques mainly used are: UV-visible spectrophotometry, Raman spectroscopy, ion chromatography, X-ray fluorescence energy dispersive, atomic emission spectroscopy inductively coupled plasma, absorption spectroscopy atomic, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy.

He performed non-destructive analysis on several works of historical and artistic interest, and in particular on Michelangelo's David and on the Riace Bronzes. He was chosen as Reviewer by several scientific Journals and he is one of the Editorial Board Members of several scientific Journals.

Prof. Pramod Kumar Singh

Prof. Pramod Kumar Singh, Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India is currently working as Professor, Department of Physics, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University.

As a postdoctoral fellow, Prof. Singh has visited South Korea, Norway and Turkey (~6 Years) abroad. Prof. Singh has published 181 papers (till March 2020) out of which 175 are in International journals and 6 book chapters. He is currently associated as editorial board member in 5 International Journals. He has participated/presented paper in 30 International conference/symposia/workshops worldwide. He has also been involved in organizing 2 International and 3 national conferences in Sharda University and performs Guest Editor/Thematic Issue Editor in 7 International Journals. His research area are Polymer Electrolyte, Nanoporous materials for energy devices, Dye sensitized solar cell, Supercapacitors. He has completed one research projects and working on one projects on material science (DRDO), Govt. of India. At present 7 students are enrolled with him for Ph.D. and 3 students have successfully got his PhD degree under his guidance. More detail you may find in his Lab. Website: www.materialsresearchlab.net

Prof. Syed Rizwan

Prof. Syed Rizwan, PhD from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) is currently working as an Associate Professor at Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. Before joining NUST, Syed Rizwan has been working as a Postdoctoral fellow at Peking University, China and has established several international collaborations under competitive research projects. Syed Rizwan has sound expertise in the fields of magnetism & spintronics, superconductivity, two-dimensional materials, energy storage devices, data storage devices and photocatalysis. He has published more than 45 papers in internationally well-recognized journals and have licensed several patents in his name. He is a guest-editor at Frontiers in Materials and a reviewer of many well-known international journals. Currently, his research is focused on 2D-MXenes which are emerging materials for various potential applications. The details of his research group and research labs can be found at: 2denergymaterials.com

Dr. Bin Yu

Dr. Bin Yu is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Future Materials in the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), working with Prof. Hao Wang (Editor-in-Chief of Composites Part B Engineering). He received his PhD degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, 2016). He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (12/2016-12/2017) as a postdoctoral fellow and then moved to the City University of Hong Kong (12/2017-06/2019). His research interests focus on flame retardant polymeric materials, high-performance polymer (nano)composites and sustainable flame retardant systems. To date, he has published over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed international journals, such as Progress in Materials Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Green Chemistry, etc., which have received a total citation of >3600, with an H index of 36. As only one chief investigator, he has secured one project funded by the Australian Research Council. He served as a reviewer for tens of journals. He also served the Frontiers in Materials as a guest editor, and Journal of Composites and Biodegradable Polymers and American Journal of Chemical Engineering as an Editorial Board Member.

Dr. Sankar Renu

Dr. Sankar Renu procured a Doctorate in Biochemistry from India. During his doctoral degree duration he was awarded the prestigious "Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research" (INSPIRE) fellowship supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India. From Ph.D research work, Dr. Renu published 12 first author articles and one book chapter in the pioneer journals of Nanobiotechnology. Dr. Renu had a first Postdoctoral training in South Korea and last four years has been working in The Ohio State University, USA. Based on his postdoctoral training in the US, so far published 8 first author and 9 coauthor articles, and 3 filed patents. His research presentations have secured four best presentation and travel awards, best postdoctoral fellow trainee award and "Young Investigator Award" in national and international meetings. He was a finalist of The Ohio State University "Next Generation Innovator" of the year-2018. Dr. Renu is section Editor of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology journal and active Reviewer for more than 20 high impact journals. He has above 1000 citations with h-index of 14. His active research areas are polymeric nanoparticles based vaccine delivery for infectious diseases, targeted drug delivery for human chronic diseases, and syntheses of engineered nanomaterials for biomedical application.

Prof. Shengqiang Ma

Dr. Shengqiang Ma is currently an associate professor working at State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) after he got his Ph.D in 2012 in XJTU. His research interests focus on the abrasive wear resistance of materials, corrosion and oxidation of alloys, liquid metal corrosion and embrittlement, solid phase transformation, coatings and control of interfacial films. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal publications, including Acta Materialia and Corrosion Science, etc.

He worked as a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech in USA during 2016-2017. Before this, he worked as a postdoctoral in heat-transfer and engineering thermodynamics as well as a faculty of School of Materials Science and Engineering in XJTU. He also becomes an reviewer of more than 20 journals (including Acta Materialia, Scientific Reports, etc.) and editorial boards of Journal of Metal Material Research, Engineering Science, Academic Journal of Polymer Science, etc. Additionally, his H-index is above 16, and total citation is about 1000 times.

Dr. Amirhossein Pakseresht

Dr. Pakseresht received his undergraduate study in materials science and engineering from Tehran University. Pakseresht completed his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC), Iran, in 2015. During his PhD, he worked as a researcher in MERC. After completion of his Ph.D. He joined the Tehran University as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of material engineering. In 2019, he has joined Amirkabir university (Tehran Polytechnic) as an adjunct research assistant prof. His research interests lie in the area of plasma spraying, with a focus on splat morphology and new thermal barrier coatings. He also has collaborated actively in multidisciplinary of materials science, particularly surface science and composite materials. Dr. Pakseresht authored a book titled production, properties, and application of high temperature coatings in IGI Global, USA. He also authored a book titled Physical chemistry and thermodynamic of materials ( in Persian). He has published more than 40 journal papers, 5 patents and 3 international book chapters. He is a member of editorial board and reviewer of more than 10 international scientific journals. Now he is a head of coating department in FunGlass center, Slovakia.

Prof. Xingang Ren

Xingang Ren received Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in 2016, where after he had worked as a Research Associate. He is now an Associate Professor at Anhui University. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, which received more than 1800 time citations (google scholar). He has been serving as the Invited Referees of Wiley, ACS, Elsevier, OSA and ACES journals. His research interests include metamaterials, energy materials include perovskite and organic semiconductor, optoelectronics include solar cells, light emitting diode and photodetectors, SERS, optical and electrical properties of nanostructure, light manipulation; plasmonic, nano-optics; nano-photonics.

Dr. Di Zhang

Dr. Di Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (SE) REat the University of Sharjah from 2015. He received his bachelor degree in Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2014. He continued his work as a postdoctoral Research Associate at HKU for one year before joining the University of Sharjah. His research interests include 3rd generation photovoltaics (perovskite solar cells, organic solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells), optoelectronics (photodetectors, Raman sensors), carbon (graphene) and plasmonic metallic nanomaterials. His publications have received over 1600 times of citations and he has actively served as a reviewer for more than 10 international journals.

Prof. Bipin Kumar Gupta

Prof. Bipin Kumar Gupta obtained his B. Sc. (Physics Hons.), M. Sc. (Solid State Physics) in first division from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He was awarded the CSIR-SRF fellowship of April 2001. He carried out his doctoral research work at the Banaras Hindu University in the Department of Physics under Professor O.N.Srivastava”. He obtained his Ph. D. in the year 2004. He was lecturer at Department of Physics in Lucknow University, Lucknow from October 19, 2006 to August 2, 2007; he joined NPL as scientist B in 2007. Currently, he is working as Principal Scientist in the Photonic Materials Metrology Sub Division.

He is a recipient of INDO-US fellowship award in Physical Sciences (2010-11). He spent one year in Rice University as an IUSSTF Fellow (Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, New Delhi) from 1-10-2010 to 30-09-2011 with Prof. P.M. Ajayan at Rice University, USA. He visited several countries like Ukraine (2003), JAPAN (2004), Taiwan (2005) and Turkey (2005). Recently, he has selected for the APAM (Aisa- Pacific Academy of Material) Fellow/Academician-2017 (Meeting held on April 12, 2017, Sendai, Japan) and he recently received prestigious MRSI Medal-2018. He is recently appointed as nominated member for the revise the specification of Bi-florescent features in Indian Passport at ISP, Nashik. Recently, he is recognised as top 10% highly cited author in Materials portfolio of RSC journals-2018. He has more than 18 years of research experience in the field of Experimental Solid State and Condensed Matter Physics: Materials Science (Luminescent Materials: Bulk and Nanophosphors), Nanotechnology, Bio-nanotechnology and Hydrogen Energy: Storage and its applications in Hydrogen Fuelled Vehicles and Devices.

Prof. Mustafa Ersoz

Prof Mustafa Ersoz is a professor of Physical Chemistry at Faculty of Science, Selcuk University, Turkey since 2004. He received BSc from Chemical Enginnerirng, Selcuk University and received PhD from Department of Chemistry, Glasgow University in 1994. He held previous appointments as Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Head of Chemistry and Vice-Director of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences at Selcuk University. His research interests are nanochemistry, self-assembly, patterning-functionalisation, nanoparticles, electrochemistry at interfaces and membrane technology. He received the “Junior Scientists award” in natural sciences from TUBİTAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. He received his Ph.D. scholarship in UK, NATO-ASI post doctorate fellowship and Leverhulme Trust visiting scientist fellowship in UK.

Prof. Mohammad H. Elahinia

Dr. Elahinia is a University Distinguished Professor in Engineering and Chair in the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME) Department at The University of Toledo. He graduated with his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in August 2004. After graduation, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering Department, where he is the director for the Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory. He was promoted to the rank Associate Professor with tenure in 2010 and Professor in 2015. Dr. Elahinia’s research interests are advance manufacturing, modeling, control, and design of smart materials with an emphasis on additive manufacturing of functional materials such as shape memory alloys for aerospace and biomedical application. 

Dr. Elahinia has also been active and engaged in the professional societies. In 2004 Dr. Elahinia was elected a member of the ASME/SPIE Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Branch under the Aerospace Division. He has since served in several other elected positions including the chair of the branch. This branch has more than 1500 members. Dr. Elahinia serves as an associate editor for four journals in his area of research: Smart Material Research, The Scientific World Journal, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures as well as the Journal of Shock and Vibration. 

Dr. Soo Jin Adrian Koh

Dr. KOH Soo Jin Adrian received his PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 2008 to 2010. During the same period, he holds a concurrent appointment of Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore). He is currently an Assistant Professor at NUS, a post that he has held since 2012. His research interests are soft active materials, utilized in specific fields of soft robotics, energy harvesting and autonomous sensing. The key material component in soft active materials is elastomeric rubber, in which natural rubber is an excellent candidate. He hopes to engage the rubber production community to raise awareness on his research, to break new grounds and open up new markets for natural rubber. Dr. Koh was awarded the "Promising International Researcher Award in Electroactive Transducers" by the European Union in 2013, in Switzerland. He is a keynote and invited speaker for numerous materials conferences, workshops and seminars.

Dr. Banani Kundu

Banani Kundu obtained her Ph. D from IIT Kharagpur, India in biomaterial designing and regenerative medicine. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Dankook University, South Korea. Currently she is an Assistant Researcher in i3B’s Research Group, Minho University, Portugal. Her present research interest is in mechanically tunable biomaterials that are designed to unwind the regulatory effect of physical cues in cancer cell invasion and metastasis to identify new therapeutic targets of cancer. She also serves as an Editorial Board Member in Frontiers in Bioengineering (Review Editor) and Biotechnology and Biomedical Research & Experimental Sciences.

Dr. Annie Ng

Dr. Annie Ng is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Nazarbayev University. She has been working on solar technologies for 11 years and published over 50 research papers in the area of photovoltaics. She received her B.S. in Applied Physics from the City University of Hong Kong in 2009 and Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 2014. She achieved the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for her postdoctoral research works. She was also appointed as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014. She is a member of IEEE Electron Devices Society and OSA. She is interested in optoelectronics, nanomaterials, light-harvesting materials and device applications.

Dr. Mahesh Suryawanshi

Dr. Mahesh Suryawanshi is currently a research fellow at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering in the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He is also recipient of Early Career Research Award (2019-2021) under APOSTD/2019/078 supported by the Ministry of Education, Research, Culture and Sports, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain and European Commission. 

His research interests include the development of earth-abundant compounds in the nanocrystals and thin film forms for their application in solar cells, solar fuels and electrocatalysis. He has published more than 80 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Catalysis, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemistry of Materials, etc., which have received a total citation of  over 2450 with an H index of 29. He is a member of Materials Research Society of Korea. He is also an Academic Editor at PLOS One and serves as an Editorial Board Member of "Energies". 

Prof. Anjanapura Venktaramanaiah Raghu

Prof. Anjanapura Venktaramanaiah Raghu is currently serving as Professor at JAIN Deemed-to-be University, India. His research interests cover design and development of novel polymeric nano materials for Super-capacitor, Photo-catalytic, Fuel Cell, Battery Storage & Separation Applications, Energy & Environment Management, Water Treatment, Polymeric Drug Delivery System, Food & Microbial Chemistry, Solar Energy, Micro Electronic Device. He is the member of many scientific society. He has published over 90 peer reviewed research/review papers, & book chapters. He has guided several Ph.D., or M.Sc. students. He is selected as Indian Researchers who are in Top 2% in their fields – Stanford Study.