Author: Sayan Ganguly

Prof. (Dr.) Sabu Thomas Professor Sabu Thomas is currently Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. He is also Full Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, and Founder Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas is Outstanding Leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine, and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Poushali Das is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mc Master University”s Faculty of Engineering, Canada. Prior to this, she held Postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She completed her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has received prestigious awards including DST INSPIRE Scholar Award (Government of India), Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Award (European Commission). Her research interests include multifunctional luminescent quantum dots and applications in sensors, antioxidant properties and the biomedical field, polymer/quantum dot nanocomposites, MXene/polymer nanocomposites, and sonochemical synthesis of nanocomposites. Dr. Sayan Ganguly is currently working as Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Waterloo, Canada. Previously, he held Postdoctoral position at Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), Israel. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His primary research interests include superabsorbent hydrogels, polymer-graphene nanocomposites, MXene-polymer systems, 3D printing, polymer composites for EMI shielding, and conducting polymer composites.