Dr. Srikanta Moharana is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, India. He received his M.
Sc. degree in Chemistry from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has published more than 77 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and over 85 book chapters in renowned international publications such as RSC, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, and Taylor & Francis. Besides, he has edited 15 books under the banner of Elsevier, Springer Nature, RSC, and Taylor & Francis publications. Under his guidance, two PhD students have successfully received their Ph.D. degrees. Moreover, he has actively participated in and presented his research work at several international conferences and has been a Reviewer for reputed international journals.
He has been awarded the Prof. G. B. Behera's Best PhD thesis award under the banner of the Orissa Chemical Society, Odisha, India. He has more than 8 years of teaching and research experience. His research experience and interests lie in carbon nanomaterials (graphene and carbon nanotubes) and functional ceramic-based polymer nanocomposite synthesis and characterization for advanced energy storage applications. He is a Life Member of the Orissa Chemical Society. Dr.
Suresh Sagadevan is working as an Associate Professor and Head of International affairs at the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He has achieved substantial and impactful research milestones. He has been recognized as the top 2% scientist in the world for the years 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020. He has been awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship, in Japan, (2023). Furthermore, he received awards as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and Charted Chemist (CChem) conferred by the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. Besides, he secured many awards such as Highly Cited Researcher (Science) from, the University of Malaya (2022), Published papers in the top 10% of Web of Science (WoS) Indexed Journals (2023, 2022), Highly Cited Special Issue (Guest Editor) (2023), Wikipedia citation follow-up, Wikipedia, 2022, JMMP Award (2021), Best Scientific Researcher, Best Academic Researcher Award, Indian Spectrophysics Association (ISPA) award, Young Researcher Award, Best Faculty Award, and so on. He also filed 3 patents and published more than 450 WoS journal articles. He has authored 15 international book series and 50 book chapters.
As for research, he has contributed to his performance by conducting excellent research and securing national/international grants. He is an Editor, Guest Editor, and Editorial board member of many reputed ISI journals. He has been a recognized reviewer for many reputed journals. Indeed, he is working in various fields such as Nanofabrication, functional Materials, graphene, polymeric nanocomposite, thin films for solar cells, supercapacitors, optoelectronics, photocatalytic, and biosensor applications.