Advanced Materials: Production, Characterization and Multidisciplinary Applications

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Dr. Mahendra U. Gaikwad is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) Mumbai. He has more than 11 years of teaching experience at UG & PG level. He obtained his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and M.E. in Mechanical Design Engineering from the Walchand Institute of Technology Solapur Maharashtra India and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology Chennai Tamil Nadu India. His current research interests include material characterization surface integrity advanced manufacturing process and machining of smart material alloys.Arpana Parihar is currently working as a research associate at the Department of Translational Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal MP India. She did her Ph.D. at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology Indore under the aegis of HBNI Mumbai. Her doctoral research involves the evaluation of the tumor selectivity and photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacy of chlorin p6 through receptormediated targeted drug delivery. She has more than 9 years of research and teaching experience at prestigious institutes including BARC RRCAT IITD AND CSIR-AMPRI. She has been awarded many prestigious fellowships including DSTWOS- B DBT-RA CSIR-NET and GATE. Her current research interests include 3D bioprinting micro/nano fabrications of biosensors for early diagnosis of diseases infectious diseases stem cell biology tissue engineering photodynamic therapy of cancer receptormediated targeting of tumors 3D cell culture expression of receptors and cytokines molecular docking molecular dynamic simulations and immunoinformatics. She has published over 50 articles 30 book chapters and edited 11 books with renowned publishers. Raju Khan is a Senior Principal Scientist & Professor at CSIR-AMPRI Bhopal MP India. He has a background of Chemistry obtaining his M.Sc.and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia India. He has experience as a Post Doctorate at the University of the Western Cape South Africa; as a Young Scientist at CSIR-NPL New Delhi India; more than 10 years of working as a Scientist at CSIR-NEIST Jorhat Assam; and as Visiting Scientist at the University of Texas & San Antonio UTSA USA. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and has also been awarded a reputed BOYSCAST Fellowship by the DST Govt of India. He has gained many other prestigious achievements such as being a member of FSSAI Govt. of India and Associate Dean of Chemical Sciences at AcSIR. His research group focuses on nanomaterials-based biosensors and point-of-care (POC) diagnostics for biomedical applications.