Shahid Ul Islam Editor & Author

Shahid Ul Islam is a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Davis, USA. Prior to this, he has served as a faculty member of Chemistry at the Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), and a Principal Project Scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India. He is currently working on the interface of materials science and textile technology, with a main emphasis on the design and development of light-activated antibacterial and antiviral materials, films, and nanofibrous membranes for biological protection and food coating applications. Abhijit Majumdar is currently holding the position of R. Jaikumar Chair Professor for Decision Sciences in the Textile and Fibre Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India (IIT Delhi). He has published 145 research papers in international refereed journals. His research areas include protective fibrous materials, operations management, and sustainable supply chains. management. He has authored two textbooks, edited four books, and two monographs. He is the associate editor of the Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India) Series E (Chemical and Textile Engineering) and OPSEARCH. B. S. Butola is a Professor at the Department of Textiles & Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi. His research interests include functionalization of textiles with metal oxides, use of shear thickening fluids for improving the impact performance of ballistic textiles, polymeric nanocomposites and smart colorants.