Nakshatra Bahadur Singh Editor

Huaihe Song is a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Materials and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He has 28 years of experience in the field of carbon materials research. His research area is in the preparation of advanced carbon materials and their applications, including pitch-based carbon materials (mesophase pitch and mesocarbon microbeads), carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon-encapsulated metal nanomaterials, and onion-like carbons), carbon-based materials for energy storage (lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors), and mesoporous carbons (ordered mesoporous carbons and carbon aerogels). Dr Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received his BSc in Physics from Hanoi University in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Paris Diderot University (France) in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University (South Korea, 2004) and University of Wollongong (Australia, 2005). He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at the Montana State University (USA, 2006-2009). His research interests include smart coatings, conducting polymers, corrosion and protection of metals/concrete, antibacterial materials, and advanced nanomaterials. Dr Ghulam Yasin is an Academic Researcher at the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, at the State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, College of Energy, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His research area is in low-dimensional, nano and 2D materials, preparation of carbon materials, including graphene, carbon nanotubes and heteroatoms doped carbon nanoarchitectures for energy storage and conversion devices/technologies, and designing and preparation of multifunctional nanocomposites for various engineering applications. Nakshatra Bahadur Singh, former Head Chemistry Department and Former Dean Faculty of Science, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur is presently Emeritus professor at Chemistry Deptt., SBSR & Research and Technology Development Centre, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP. Dr. Singh was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and has worked at TH, Aachen, University of Clausthal, University Kassel and TU Dortmund University, Germany. Dr. Singh was post doctoral fellow at Free university of Brussels, Belgium during 1973-1974. Dr. Singh is a recipient of NETZSCH - ITAS Award 2002 and ISCAS Gold Medal and Life Time Achievement Award Indian Association for Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists at VIT Vellore on 21st Nov.2009 for the contributions in the area of solid state chemistry. Dr. Singh is former president of Indian Association for Solid State Chemists and Allied Scientists. Dr Ram K. Gupta is Associate Professor, in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, USA. His research interests include green energy production and storage using conducting polymers, 2D materials, nanostructured materials, and composites, polymers from renewable resources for industrial applications, polymer recycling for sustainable future, bio-compatible nanofibers and thin films for tissue regeneration, scaffold, bio-degradable metallic implants, and antibacterial applications.