Ram Naresh Mahaling Editor

Dr. Srikanta Moharana currently works as an Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He received his M.Sc degree in Chemistry (2012) from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and Ph.D. (2019) & M.Phil (2013) in Chemistry from School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India. He has expertise in the field of perovskite metal oxide-based composite materials, graphene, nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes, ceramics; functionalized metal oxide-based polymer nanocomposites (FCPNs) and has published more than 30 research papers in journals of international repute. He has been awarded the Prof. GB Behera Best PhD thesis award under the banner of the Orissa Chemical Society. He has strong experience in the field of perovskite metal oxides and nanocomposite synthesis based on polymer and energy storage devices for industrial applications, as well as from laboratory scale to large scale implementation in the field of miniaturization of the nano-scale industry and fabrication of flexible thin film capacitors for advanced energy storage. Dr. Tanmaya Badapanda currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar. He has completed his master’s degree and PhD from NIT, Rourkela in the field of Material Science. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience and has published around 80 papers in journals of international repute. He was nominated for the Young Scientist Award (2014 & 2015) by the Indian National Science Association, Delhi and a recipient of the Young Scientist Award in 2013 given by the Odisha Physical Society. He is a reviewer of reputed journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley etc. and has received an outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier and the American Ceramic Society. He is a life member of the Indian Association of Physics Teachers and Orissa Physical Society. He is a Principal Investigator of the CSIR-funded project on polymer composites for embedded capacitors. His research interests include: ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, energy harvesters, polymer composites. Dr. Santosh Kumar Satpathy currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He has completed his M.Sc. (Physics) from Sambalpur University and his Ph.D. from Sambalpur University in collaboration with Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata. He has received his M.Phil. in Physics from the School of Physics, Sambalpur University, India. During his PhD, he worked on the double perovskite materials. He has more than 26 research papers in different international and national journals. Six (6) M.Phil. students have been awarded and three (3) students are continuing Ph.D. under his guidance. He has gained recent expertise in the field of nano structured perovskite systems and has moved on to high-energy storage devices. Now he is working in the field of ferroelectric, multiferroic, optical properties, and magnetic properties for the application of perovskite materials. He is a life member of Orissa Physical Society. Dr. Ram Naresh Mahaling is a Reader in the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University since 2017. He has received his Ph.D. in Polymeric and Elastomeric Nanocomposites from the Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and 14 years of research experience and has published more than 55 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and authored three book chapters. His current areas of research include the synthesis of perovskite-type metal oxide (BaTiO3, BiFeO3, CaTiO3, etc) based polymer composite materials for electronic applications and energy storage, nanocomposites and structure-properties relationships. He has visited the Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany, and University of Orleans, France for two-and-half years as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has received three (03) research projects from different funding agency, (01) Government of Odisha, 01(UGC New Delhi) and 01 (DST SERB, New Delhi). Twelve (12) M.Phil students and two (02) Ph.D students have been awarded under his guidance. Dr. Rajneesh Kumar is an Associate Professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P, India since October 2017. He earned his M.Sc from Banaras Hindu University in the specialization of Nuclear Physics and has completed his Ph.D at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India in the field of plasma antennas. After he earned his Ph.D, he was a post-doctoral fellow at LAPALCE, University of Toulouse France where he worked on plasmas as metamaterials and plasma photonic crystals for microwave invisibility and post-doctoral research associate in Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE where he worked on plasma technology for waste to energy applications. He was a project scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. India and worked on pulsed laser deposition systems for thin films and then became an Assistant Professor in Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, M.P., India. He has co-authored 30 articles in reputed international journals. He is a life member of the Plasma Science Society of India.