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- Written by worldwide experts from academia and the industry
- Explores state-of-the-art of interdisciplinary approach
- Comprehensive coverage of Green Materials, Green Nanomaterials, Green Plastics and their applications.
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Dr. Chinnappan Baskar is Associate Professor and Head in the Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He is Visiting Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics in the Pattimura University, Ambon, Indonesia. He received M. Sc in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and PhD in Organic and Materials Chemistry from National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has worked as Director, Himalayiya University, Dehradun; Director, Research and Development Center, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad; Director (Officiating); THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology Tehri, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India; Brain Korean 21 (BK21) Research Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, and Co-researcher in Energy and Environmental Fusion Technology Center, Myongji University, South Korea. His research interests include Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Conducting Polymers, Green Chemistry and Engineering, Ionic Liquids, Biomass Conversion; Biodegradable Polymers, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Solid Waste Management and Radiation Resistant Polymers. He has published several research papers in reputed international journals with high impact factors and citations.
Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, is the Director of Center for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He chairs the Circular Economy Taskforce, and a member of Enterprise Singapore’s ISO/TC323 committee on Circular Economy. He has co-authored over 1,000 SCI listed international journal papers. He received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, UK. He received numerous recognitions which include CUT Honorary Engineering Doctorate, ASEAN Outstanding Engineer Award; UK Cambridge Nehru Fellowship, Singapore LKY Fellowship, and more. He facilitated large scale research and innovation partnerships with world leading universities in USA, Europe and Asia.
Dr. Angela Daniela La Rosa is an associate professor of the Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is a chemist with a strong focus on polymer composites and environmental impact including LCA/LCC. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry of Polymer Materials, carried out in the Wilton International Research Centre (UK), within the Strategic Technology Group of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Prof. La Rosa started her education on LCA and LCC in 2006 through a research visit at the Division of Environmental Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and by attending an advanced course in Life Cycle Assessment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden. Since then, she has published several articles on LCA applied on polymer composites. Currently she teaches a course on LCA of energy systems and a course on LCA for Ecodesign at NTNU, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Green Materials
Editors: Chinnappan Baskar, Seeram Ramakrishna, Angela Daniela La Rosa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4921-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Chemistry and Mat. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4921-9Due: 17 June 2024
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomaterials, Energy Materials, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Sustainable Development