S R S Prabaharan Editor

S. R. S. Prabaharan is a professor and program chair (embedded system) in the School of Electronics Engineering (SENSE), VIT University, Chennai campus, India, since January 2013. He received his PhD in solid state devices in 1992. His immediate past appointment was with Manipal International University, Malaysia, where he was heading the electrical and electronics engineering programme and served as a full professor. Prior to this appointment, he served a long tenure with the University of Nottingham Malaysia/UK campuses under joint appointments as a professor and the head of the Power and Energy Research Division. He has published over 75 papers in high-impact journals and over 200 conference proceedings. He has several international patents (USA and Japan) to his credit. He is known for his notable research in areas of Li-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and advanced power solutions for electronic gadgets.

M. S. Michael is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, SSN College of Engineering, Anna University, India. She received her PhD in 1996 in the field of corrosion from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. She also worked as a research fellow in the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), a premier national laboratory in India. She then continued her post-doctoral fellowship at the Universiti Malaya, Multimedia University, Malaysia, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, developing lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Michael has published more than 40 international peer-reviewed journal articles and has a few international patents to her credit. She has served on advisory boards and delivered invited talks in international conferences. Her expertise includes corrosion aspects of intermetallic alloys, hybrid supercapacitors, nanomaterials, lithium batteries, and Li–air batteries.