Prashant Kumta Editor

Prashant Kumta,Ph.D. obtained a Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Arizona in 1990. Professor Kumta is the Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor at University of Pittsburgh. He is the author/co-author of over 150 refereed journal publications and has given more than 200 conference presentations with more than 66 invited presentations. He is a recognized authority in the area of advance Li-ion batteries. Aloysius F. Hepp earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT. He retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I-III-VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry and aerospace technologies. He is currently Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP, as well as serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B and Heliyon - all Elsevier journals. Moni K. Datta is an Assistant Professor at the Bioengineering Department of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. Oleg I. Velikokhatnyi is an Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.