William-Henry Gauvin was Canadian chemical engineer. He was also an educator and championed industry-university-governmental research in Canada.
Helmut Ringsdorf was a German polymer chemist. His work promoted cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations in the field of polymer chemistry,biology,physics and medicine.
Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU),commonly referred to as MG University,is a state owned public university headquartered in Kottayam in the state of Kerala,India. It was established on 2 October 1983 on Gandhi Jayanti day. Mahatma Gandhi University has been approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) and accredited (A) by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India. The university has around 300 affiliated colleges spread over five districts in central Kerala.
Jean M.J. Fréchet is a French-American chemist and professor emeritus at the University of California,Berkeley. He is best known for his work on polymers including polymer-supported chemistry,chemically amplified photoresists,dendrimers,macroporous separation media,and polymers for therapeutics. Ranked among the top 10 chemists in 2021,he has authored nearly 900 scientific paper and 200 patents including 96 US patents. His research areas include organic synthesis and polymer chemistry applied to nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on the design,fundamental understanding,synthesis,and applications of functional macromolecules.
Nanocomposite is a multiphase solid material where one of the phases has one,two or three dimensions of less than 100 nanometers (nm) or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material.
V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai is the vice-chancellor of Somaiya Vidyavihar University and provost of Somaiya Vidyavihar,Pillai concurrently serving as the chancellor of the ICFAI University,Tripura. He was president of Mewar University,Chiittorgarh,Rajasthan,India (2016–2018).
Catholicate College,Pathanamthitta,established in 1952,is an institution of higher education at Pathanamthitta of Kerala,India. Catholicate College belongs to the first group of colleges in Kerala to receive academic accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). In the fourth cycle of (NAAC) re-accreditation,the college has been re-accredited by NAAC in A++ grade with CGPA of 3.53. The college is owned by Malankara Orthodox Church,founded by Catholicos Moran Mar Baselios Geevarghese II. The college was originally planned by Geevarghese Mar Philoxenos,Metropolitan;it was founded in 1952,after his death,by Daniel Mar Philoxenos Metropolitan,who became the first principal of the college.
Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS),with campuses at Thiruvananthapuram and Pala in Kerala,India,is a research level institution devoted to mathematics and other related disciplines like statistics,theoretical physics,computer and information sciences. The Centre was incorporated in 1977 as a non-profit scientific research and training centre under the Travancore-Cochin Literary,Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act XII of 1955. The driving force behind the establishment of the Centre was Prof. Aleyamma George,who had been Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics of University of Kerala. Since 2006,the Centre is a Department of Science and Technology (India) (DST),Government of India,New Delhi Centre for Mathematical Sciences and is fully financed by DST,New Delhi.
Azam Ali is a Bangladeshi scientist known internationally as biomaterials and bioengineering experts for having developed a wound dressing,which earned him the Bayer Innovators Award in 2010.
Steven Peter Armes is a Professor of polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry at the University of Sheffield.
Hiroshi Nishihara,born 21 March 1955,is a Japanese chemist and Professor of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo in Japan. Currently heading the department of Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in The University of Tokyo,he is a distinguished professor,researcher and pioneer in the field of synthesis and electrochemistry of conductive metal complex polymers.
Swaminathan Sivaram is an Indian polymer chemist,inventor,institution builder and a former director of the National Chemical Laboratory,Pune. He is known for his pioneering work on alkylation of tertiary alkyl halides with trialkylaluminum and olefin polymerization and holds the highest number of US patents by an Indian working outside the US. He is a fellow of several significant professional organizations. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2006,for his contributions to Indian science.
Mariam Al Maadeed is a Qatari national and a Professor in Physics and Materials Science at Qatar University.
Maurizio Prato,is an Italian Organic Chemist,who is best known for his work on the functionalization of carbon nanostructures,including fullerenes,carbon nanotubes and graphene. He developed a series of organic reactions that make these materials more biocompatible,less or even non toxic,amenable to further functionalization,and easier to manipulate. He is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Trieste and Research Professor at CIC BiomaGUNE in San Sebastián,Spain.
Mushi Santappa was an Indian polymer chemist,leather technologist and a vice chancellor of Sri Venkateswara University and the University of Madras. He was one of the founder directors of Avanti Leathers Limited and was known for his researches on the synthesis of graft copolymers,the properties of macromolecules,and osmotic techniques. He was an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences,India,Royal Institute of Chemistry and New York Academy of Sciences and a founder fellow of the Academy of Sciences,Chennai. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 1967,for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Vijay Kumar Thakur is an Indian chemist,material scientist and Professor known for his research in the field of polymers,nanotechnology,manufacturing engineering,sustainable chemistry and materials science. He has published over 300 SCI journal articles,52 Books and two USA patents. He sits on the editorial board of several SCI journals.
Yitzhak Mastai is a Chemistry Professor at Bar Ilan University specializing in chirality at the nanoscale and in nanotechnology.
Jorge Gascon is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,director of the KAUST Catalysis Center. and a group leader of Advanced Catalytic Materials group
Aniruddha Bhalchandra Pandit is an Indian chemical engineer,inventor and academic,known for his fundamental and commercial research on cavitational reactors,design of multiphase reactors,bubble dynamics. He is the vice chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology,Mumbai since 2019,succeeding G. D. Yadav.
Jaime C. Grunlan is a material scientist and academic. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering,and Leland T. Jordan ’29 Chair Professor at Texas A&M University.
