Carbon-Based Nanocomposites for Sustainable Applications, Volume I

Dr. Virat Khanna

Dr. Virat Khanna works as an Associate Professor at the UCRD, Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in academics and research. He has authored over 50 national and international publications in SCI, Scopus, and Web of Science-indexed journals. He is the editor of several books and conference proceedings with international publishers like Springer, CRC Press, IGI Global and Bentham Science Books. He has delivered several invited seminars and keynote talks on international platforms and has been awarded the best research paper awards. He also serves as the Editorial Board member of the prestigious journal "Scientific Reports", of Nature Group and is also the academic editor of the "Journal of Nanotechnology", Wiley and "Advanced Materials Science and Engineering", Wiley. He is also the Book Series Editor entitled "Recent Advances in Materials for Nanotechnology" of CRC Press, Taylor & Francis- Publisher. He has also guest edited various special issues with various international journal publishers like Springer, De Gruyter, etc. He is also a reviewer board member of several international journals.

Dr. Chander Prakash

Chander Prakash serving as Group Pro-Vice Chancellor, Rayat Bahra University, Mohali, Punjab, India. He served as Dean of Research and Development/School of Mechanical Engineering at Lovely Professional University, India. He did his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has published over 530 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a highly cited researcher with 13400 citations (H-index 66 and I-10 index 252: Google Scholar 2025). He is listed in the Top 2% world’s leading scientists published by Stanford University and Elsevier. Dr. Prakash edited/authored 30 books, serving as Series Editor of 3 books, as Guest Editor and serving as Editorial Board Member of Journals. He has published 18 patents. Dr. Prakash raised funds for Mega Grants in collaboration with Southern Federal University, Russian Federation.