Autor: Aswathy Babu

Suresh C. Pillai is the Director of the Health and Bio-Medical Research Centre and the head of Nanotechnology and Bio-Engineering Research Group at Atlantic Technological University. He obtained his Ph D in Nanotechnology from Trinity College Dublin and performed postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology, USA. He returned to Trinity College Dublin as a Research Fellow before joining CREST-DIT as a Senior Scientist in 2004 and joining IT Sligo in 2013. He is an elected fellow of the UK»s Royal Microscopical Society (FRMS) and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He has also completed an executive MBA from Dublin City University. Daniel M. Mulvihill is Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at University of Glasgow. He completed a D.Phil. in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2012, and subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Limerick, EPFL Switzerland and the University of Cambridge prior to joining Glasgow in 2016. His interests are mainly focused on materials engineering, tribology and materials for energy applications. Dr Mulvihill is a former Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMech E) Tribology Trust Bronze Medalist (2013). He presently leads a major £1.5M EPSRC project (EP/V003380/1) on next generation textile triboelectric nanogenerators. Aswathy Babu is an Assistant Lecturer at Atlantic Technological University, Sligo, Ireland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Kerala, India in 2015. She worked as a KSCSTE post-doctoral fellow at CSIR-NIIST, India prior to joining ATU-Sligo as a post-doctoral researcher under SFI-EPSRC funding. Her research is in the area of energy materials, particularly the development of textile triboelectric nanogenerators for wearable electronic applications and developing functional nanomaterials for advanced oxidation processes.