Kunal Singha Editor & Author

Subhankar Maity is an assistant professor of knitting in The Department of Textile Technology in Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur, India. He has previously worked in industry for Ginni Filaments Ltd., Noida, India, and Alok Industries Ltd., Silvassa, India. His current subject area of teaching is Knitting Technology, Structure and Properties of fibres, Statistical Quality control in Textile Industry, and Fabric formation. His main research areas are smart electro-conductive textiles, heat transfer behaviour of fibrous/polymeric materials and related functional textiles. Sohel Rana is a lecturer in Technical Textiles at the School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. Dr. Rana is actively involved in the research and development of smart fibrous and composite materials, nanocomposites, bio-composites, natural fibres, electrospinning, etc. He has been a key researcher in developing ‘multi-functional and bio-based hierarchical composites’ and high performance ‘auxetic structures and composites’ for personal protection applications. He has edited a number of books on advanced textile and composite materials with leading publishers. Pintu Pandit is an assistant professor at the Textile Design Department of the National Institute of Fashion Technology under the Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India at Patna campus. His research is focused on a ‘Best from Waste’ theme, encompassing sustainability in textile and fashion, low cost sustainable market, natural dyeing, natural multifunctional finishing, graphene, atmospheric plasma technology, and nanotechnology. He was the winner of the Young Talent Search 2018, SDC EC’ India award, and received the Young Engineer Award for 2020 from the Institute of Engineers, India. He is an active member of the American Chemical Society, The Indian Natural Fibre Society, and the Society of Dyers and Colorists. Dr. Pandit has published more than 60 international and national peer reviewed research papers, 18 national and international conferences and more than 20 book chapters. Kunal Singha is an assistant professor and course coordinator at the Department of Textile Design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Patna, India. His primary research focus is on sustainable textile, quality, supply and manufacturing chain. He has written more than eighty papers/book chapters/conference proceedings headed by many reputed national/international publishing houses. He is a member of the Textile Association of India, Institute of Engineers and Society of Dyers & Colorists.