Sustainable Epoxy Thermosets and Nanocomposites

Niranjan Karak, FRSC (London), M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) is Dean, Research And Development of Tezpur University (TU) and a Professor of Polymer Science and Nanomaterials, Chemical Sciences Department (former HoD) and former Head, Sophisticated and Analytical Instrumentation Center (SAIC) of TU. Prof. Karak also served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Visiting Professor of Prof. J. W. Cho's Laboratory, Department of Textile Engineering, Konkuk University, South Korea, as well as a Guest Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany. He has approximately 24 years and 6 months of academic experience and more than one year of industrial experience in the field. Dr. Karak has published approximately 244 research papers including review articles in reputed national and international journals and presented numerous invited talks in India and abroad based on the findings of his research group. He is also the author of five books and editor/co-editor of three additional books. He has also written fifteen chapters in different edited books. His research papers are cited in various text/reference books and journals (h-index = 49, i10-index=192, citation= 9287, Google scholar as of September 15, 2021). Dr. Karak has two Indian patents and three more filed on his innovative works. He has executed 12 government sponsored research projects and five consultancy projects in different industries. Prof. Karak guided 21 research scholars in earning their Ph.D. degree (six more are pursuing) and seven post-doctoral fellows along with many MSc/MTech projects. His fields of research interest are mainly based on biobased high performance hyperbranched polymers and nanomaterials and their nanocomposites as sustainable advanced multifaceted materials. Prof. Karak has been credited with nine national awards from different academic societies including 'The president of India', Ministry of Fertilizer and Chemicals, Government of India and Polymer Society of India, and nine international recognitions (including one of the most highly prolific authors for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering in the world, 2016, one of the top Indian authors ACS Omega, 2019 and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry), for his outstanding contributions in the field.