Antimicrobial Materials and Coatings

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. Dr. Ashish Kumar Singh received his PhD in Biotechnology in 2018 from Punjabi University, Patiala, India. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India. His primary research interests are in the development and application of nanomaterials and imprinted polymers for sensor and electrochemical biosensor. Also, his research focus is in the areas of micro-/nanofabrication, materials science, and thin film sensors/biosensor development. He has published more than 20 research/review papers and 4 book chapters in his credit and attended various national/International conferences. Dr. Marshal is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. Prior to this, he was a senior scientist at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and was also a Senior Fellow in Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He received his PhD from UMIST (the Manchester University, England) in 2004 in low temperature plasma physics for application to life science. He has also worked as a Research Professor at the Biology Research Centre for Industrial Accelerators, Dongshing University, Naju, South Korea and also has held a Scientist Fellow position at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics. He has more than 70 publications and multiple patents applied.

Section 1 Bio-based antimicrobial composites 1. Antimicrobial gum a bio-based nanocomposites. 2. Antibacterial Properties of Biobased Polyester Composites 3. Production of Bio-Based Antimicrobial Agents Section: 2 Biodegradable antibacterial materials 4. Biodegradable Antibacterial Polymeric Nanosystems 5. Biodegradable Natural Antibacterial Extract as Novel Periodontal Barrier Membranes 6. Bio-Based Antimicrobial towards Sustainable Development Section 3 Bioactive materials and coatings 7. Bioactive glass coatings on metallic implants for biomedical applications 8. Enzymic Thin Film Coatings for Bioactive Materials 9. Antibacterial and Bioactive Coatings on Titanium Implant Surfaces Section 4 Interfaces Materials and coatings 10. Superhydrophobic Coatings with Edible Materials 11. Dual-Functional, Superhydrophobic and Antimicrobial Characteristics 12. Antibacterial Coatings Constructed by N-Hydroxyethyl acrylamide and Quaternary Ammonium-Containing Copolymers Section 5 Antifungal materials and coatings 13. Antifungal Coatings in Medical Device Infections 14. Antifungal activity copper nanocomposite coatings 15. (Meth)acrylate polymers based antifungal materials Section 6 Nanoengineered Materials and coatings 16. Nanoengineered Antibacterial Coatings and Materials 17. Engineering and Application Perspectives on Designing an Antimicrobial Surface 18. Nanotechnology in Paints and Coatings 19. Nano based antiviral coating to reduced viral infection Section 7 Antimicrobial coatings for biomedical application 20. Antibacterial Coatings: Challenges, Perspectives, and Opportunities 21. Antibacterial Coatings for Improving the Performance of Biomaterials 22. Organic and inorganic antibacterial approaches in combating bacterial infection for biomedical application Section 8 Food packaging materials 23. Bio-based active food packaging materials 24. Green-based antimicrobial packaging materials 25. Bacterial cellulose as a biodegradable food packaging material Section 9 Antibacterial filters and membranes 26. Chitosan-based nanofibrous membranes for antibacterial filter applications 27. Development of tree-like nanofibrous air filter 28. Potential of a functionalized nanofiber microfiltration membrane as an antibacterial water filter Section 10 Bacteria fouling and fouling prevention 29. Fouling control in reverse osmosis for water desalination 30. Fouling of ion exchange membranes used in the electrodialysis reversal advanced water treatment 31. Prevention of bacteria fouling in drinking water Section 11 Case studies 32. Case studies I 33. Case studies II 34. Case studies III Section 12 Green and sustainable future and conclusion 35. plant-mediated green synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles for antibacterial applications 36. Antibacterial nanomaterials for environmental and consumer product applications 37. Antibacterial activity of green synthesized silver nanoparticles