Waste-Derived Carbon Nanomaterials. Properties and Applications. Woodhead Publishing in Materials

Authors

Dr. Srikanta Moharana is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, India. He has received his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He was awarded Prof. GB Behera Best PhD thesis award under the banner of Orissa chemical society, India. His research experience as well as research interests, lies in graphene, carbon nanotubes and ceramic based polymer nanocomposites synthesis and Characterization for advanced energy storage applications. He is a life member of Orissa Chemical Society.

Dr. Suresh Sagadevan is working as an Associate Professor and Head of International affairs at the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He has achieved substantial and impactful research milestones. He has been recognized as the top 2% scientist in the world for the years 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020. He has been awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship, in Japan, (2023). Furthermore, he received awards as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Charted Chemist (CChem) conferred by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Besides, he secured many awards such as Highly Cited Researcher (Science) from, the University of Malaya (2022), Published papers in the top 10% of Web of Science (WoS) Indexed Journals (2023, 2022), Highly Cited Special Issue (Guest Editor) (2023), Wikipedia citation follow-up, Wikipedia, 2022, JMMP Award (2021), Best Scientific Researcher, Best Academic Researcher Award, Indian Spectrophysics Association (ISPA) award, Young Researcher Award, Best Faculty Award, and so on. He also filed 3 patents and published more than 450 WoS journal articles. He has authored 15 international book series and 50 book chapters. As for research, he has contributed to his performance by conducting excellent research and securing national/international grants. He is an Editor, Guest Editor, and Editorial board member of many reputed ISI journals. He has been a recognized reviewer for many reputed journals. Indeed, he is working in various fields such as Nanofabrication, functional Materials, graphene, polymeric nanocomposite, thin films for solar cells, supercapacitors, optoelectronics, photocatalytic, and biosensor applications.