Nanomaterials: The Building Blocks of Modern Technology: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Dr. Tabrej Khan is a material scientist with Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (Specialization in materials) from University Putra Malaysia in 2020. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the field of material science and engineering at Department of Engineering Management, College of Engineering Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has a pool of good publications in reputed journals, patents, chapters in books and has lot of experience in the field of Hybrid Composites, Advanced Materials, Structural Health Monitoring and Impact Studies, Damage Detections and Repairs, Impact Studies, Signal Processing and Instrumentations, Non-Destructive Testing and Destructive Testing.

Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also Distinguished Visiting Professor at Malaysian Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Malaysia. Dr. Mohammad Jawaid received his Ph.D. from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites and advanced materials. So far, he has published 65 books, 80 book chapters, more than 450 peer-reviewed international journal papers and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013-2018. He also obtained 6 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 76 and 26353, and in Google scholar, H-index and citation are 90 and 35507. He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book, Sustainable Materials and Technology and Smart Nanotechnology of Springer Nature. Beside that he is also Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials. He is also an International Advisory Board member of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. He is reviewer of several high impact ISI journals (200 journals). He is also Fellow and Chartered Scientist of IOM, UK.

Prof. Ir. Dr. Hj. Kamarul Arifin Ahmad is currently Director of the Putra Science Park UPM and professor in Aerospace Engineering Department in UPM. Prof. Kamarul has Bachelor degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, MSc. in Aerodynamics (Aerospace Dynamics) from Cranfield University and Doctorate from Queens University of Belfast. In 2015, he obtained his Professional Engineer (PE) status from Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Between 2016 and 2018, he was seconded to King Saud University, Saudi Arabia in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also former Head of the Aerospace Malaysia Research Centre (AMRC) UPM and the head of the Aerospace Engineering Department in UPM. He has vast experiences in the Aerospace Engineering field and has been teaching in the same area for more than 15 years. He taught several general engineering related subjects such as Engineering Design, thermodynamics and Dynamics. He also taught aerospace engineering related subjects namely introduction to aerospace engineering, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics. He has teaching experience in different environment such as in Queens University in Belfast, USM, UPM and also in KSU Saudi Arabia. He has been involved in improving the curriculum of the Aerospace Engineering Degree in USM and UPM. In USM, he was the Deputy Dean of the School of Aerospace Engineering, and was in charged in accreditation of Bachelor Degree Program. His experience and knowledge in Aerospace Engineering has attracted UTHM to appoint him as an External Assessor for the Aeronautical Degree Program. The appointment duration was 4 years between 2013 and 2017. In the past 15 years, he is also deeply involved in the research work. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 100 journals and conference proceedings in the area of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, bio-medical engineering, and others. He is an editorial board member for several journals namely ASEAN Engineering Journal and Aircraft and Spacecraft Journal. He also serves as reviewer for various journals. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD as main supervisor and co-supervisor. His international networking is very strong where he is the co-founder and chairman of the International Conference of Computational in Engineering and Health Sciences (ICCMEH). This conference is an annual event where it is jointly organised by UPM, Manipal University, India and Kyutech Institute of Technology (KIT) Japan.

Dr. Balbir Singh is currently working as a senior Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the Department of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. He has a doctoral degree in the field of Aerospace Engineering from Department of Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has good number of publications and grants in his favour. His research focus on insect inspired miniaturized robots for planetary studies, advanced aerospace materials (bio, natural or Nano) at all the scales, high performance computing and modeling, unsteady aerodynamics, space debris removal and traffic management, space systems engineering and clean energy.

Dr. Tabrej Khan 是一位材料科學家，於2020年獲得馬來西亞普特拉大學航空工程（材料專業）博士學位。他目前在沙烏地阿拉伯利雅德的王子蘇丹大學工程學院工程管理系擔任博士後研究員，專注於材料科學與工程領域。他在知名期刊上發表了多篇優秀的論文，擁有多項專利和書籍章節，並在混合複合材料、先進材料、結構健康監測、衝擊研究、損傷檢測與修復、信號處理與儀器、非破壞性測試及破壞性測試等領域擁有豐富的經驗。

Dr. Mohammad Jawaid 目前在馬來西亞普特拉大學熱帶林業與森林產品研究所（INTROP）的生物複合材料技術實驗室擔任高級研究員（教授），同時也是馬來西亞日本國際技術學院（MJIIT）的特聘訪問教授。Dr. Mohammad Jawaid 於馬來西亞科學大學獲得博士學位，擁有超過20年的教學、研究和產業經驗。他的研究興趣包括混合增強/填充聚合物複合材料和先進材料。迄今為止，他已出版65本書籍、80章書籍章節、超過450篇經過同行評審的國際期刊論文，以及幾篇在2013至2018年間被Science Direct列為前25篇熱門文章的綜述論文。他還獲得6項專利和6項著作權。在Scopus上的H指數和引用次數分別為76和26353，而在Google Scholar上的H指數和引用次數為90和35507。他是Springer Nature的複合材料與技術書籍系列、可持續材料與技術以及智慧納米技術的創始系列編輯。此外，他還是Springer材料學會議的編輯，並擔任Springer聚合物與複合材料系列的國際諮詢委員會成員。他是多本高影響力ISI期刊（200本期刊）的審稿人，並且是英國IOM的研究員和特許科學家。

Prof. Ir. Dr. Hj. Kamarul Arifin Ahmad 目前是馬來西亞普特拉大學的普特拉科學園區主任及航空工程系教授。Kamarul教授擁有馬來西亞科學大學的學士學位、克蘭菲爾德大學的氣動力學碩士學位（航空動力學）以及貝爾法斯特女王大學的博士學位。2015年，他獲得馬來西亞工程師委員會（BEM）的專業工程師（PE）資格。2016至2018年間，他被借調至沙烏地阿拉伯的國王沙烏德大學機械工程系。他曾擔任馬來西亞航空研究中心（AMRC）及普特拉大學航空工程系的主任，並在航空工程領域擁有豐富的經驗，教學超過15年。他教授多門與工程相關的科目，如工程設計、熱力學和動力學，並教授航空工程相關的科目，包括航空工程導論、氣動力學、氣體動力學和計算流體力學。他在貝爾法斯特的女王大學、馬來西亞科學大學、普特拉大學及沙烏地阿拉伯的KSU等不同環境中擁有教學經驗。他參與了馬來西亞科學大學和普特拉大學航空工程學位課程的課程改進。在馬來西亞科學大學，他曾擔任航空工程學院的副院長，負責學士學位課程的認證。他在航空工程領域的經驗和知識使得UTHM聘請他擔任航空學位課程的外部評估員，任期為2013至2017年共4年。在過去的15年中，他也深度參與研究工作。至今，他在流體動力學領域已發表或共同發表超過100篇期刊和會議論文。