Advances in Polymer Composite Research

Atul Kumar Maurya is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass, Lowell), US. He has done his Ph.D. (IIT Roorkee) in Polymer Composites, M. Tech (IIT Hyderabad) in Material Science and Metallurgical Engineering, and B. Tech (CIPET, Lucknow) in Plastics Engineering. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, he served at Pittsburg State University as Postdoc, at Reliance Industries Limited as Research Scientist, and in academia (CIPET, Ahmedabad) as a faculty. His research area encompasses the processing and optimization of polymer and polymer composites. Dr. Maurya has an impressive publication record with around 22 research publications in internationally recognized SCI journals, international conferences, and book chapters. He has made significant contributions to esteemed peer-reviewed journals in the field of Polymer engineering and science, Cellulose, Polymer composites, among others. Gaurav Manik is currently acting as a Head (HOD) of the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee. He joined IIT Roorkee in January 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the same Department. Dr. Manik holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, as well as an M. Tech from IIT Kanpur and a B. Tech from HBTI Kanpur. Prior to his tenure at IIT Roorkee, he gained extensive experience in both industry and academia, accumulating over 18 years of professional expertise. He has worked with esteemed organizations such as 3M, Indo Gulf Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., Classic Stripes Pvt. Ltd., BITS Pilani, and BIET Jhansi. Dr. Manik's industry contributions include the development and commercialization of numerous innovative products, as well as the protection of intellectual property through a substantial number of patents and record of inventions. Sushanta Kumar Sethi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering at IIT Dharwad since July 2023. Prior to this, Dr. Sethi worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS) at IIT Bombay. In February 2021, he successfully completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Polymer & Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee. Dr. Sethi holds an M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from BPUT, Odisha. His research interests encompass various areas such as computational materials science, self-clean coatings, functional nanomaterials/quantum dots and their applications, multi-scale molecular modeling and simulations of polymer materials, development of novel and environmentally sustainable polymer composites and nanocomposites, as well as coatings and adhesives. Dr. Sethi has an impressive publication record with around 35 research publications in internationally recognized SCI journals, international conferences, and book chapters. He has made significant contributions to esteemed peer-reviewed journals in the field of Polymer engineering and science, ACS sensors, and Polymers, Polymer composites, Micromachines, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, among others. His remarkable achievements include receiving the Best Doctoral Thesis Award from Dept. of Polymer & Process Engineering from IIT Roorkee and recognition from the Science Technology Engineering and Management (STEM) society.

1. Introduction to Polymer Composites 2. Experimental Characterization of Polymer Composites 3. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in Polymer Composite Study 4. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for polymer composite analysis 5. Development of image translating model to counter Adversarial attacks 6. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Polymer Composites 7. Exploring Polymer Composite Behavior through Advanced Computational Modeling 8. Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Composites 9. Advanced Characterization Techniques for Polymer Composites 10. Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications 11. Engineered Nanomaterial Composites: Synthesis and Properties 12. Coating Techniques for Interfacial Adhesion Improvement in Polymer Composites 13. Experimental Evaluation of Nano Composites in Polymer Matrix 14. Computational modeling of nanocomposites and interfacial adhesion 15. Hybrid approaches: Nanocomposites and filler coating for enhanced performance in polymer composites 16. Porous Polymers and Composites via Electrospinning and Emulsion Templating: Fundamentals and Computational Approaches