Advanced Materials from Recycled Waste

Sarika Verma is Principal Scientist at Materials for Radiation Shielding and Cement-free Concrete Division, CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal, India. Her research interests focus on advanced materials for different broad application spectrums, including cement-free materials, radiation shielding materials, polymeric composites, and biomedical and energy materials via novel techniques.Raju Khan is a Senior Principal Scientist and Professor, at CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal. He did his PhD in Chemistry in 2005 from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, and Postdoctoral researcher at the “Sensor Research Laboratory” University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. His current research involved synthesizing novel materials to fabricate electrochemical and fluorescence-based biosensors integrated with microfluidics to detect target disease risk biomarkers for health care monitoring. He has published over 150 papers in SCI journal, which attracted over 5500 citations as per Google Scholar, published 45 book chapters in the reputed book Elsevier and Taylor Francis, editing of 28 books from Elsevier and Taylor Francis, and his research has been highlighted in Nature India. He has supervised 5 PhD and 30 undergraduate/postgraduate theses and has supervised 4 numbers of postdoctoral fellows under the scheme of N-PDF, CSIR-Nehru Fellowship, and DST-Women Scientist Projects. Mrs. Medha Mili is currently working as Scientist at Integrated Approach for Design & Product Development division, CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal - 462026, MP, India. She has completed her M.Tech in Polymer Science & Technology from Tezpur University. Her current research on Development of Synthetic and Natural Fibre Based Polymer Composites • Polymer Processing • Smart Shape Memory Polymer Composites. • Development of Composites by Utilization of Waste Raw Materials. Dr. S.A.R. Hashmi is Chief Scientist and Head of the Integrated Approach for Design & Product Development Division, CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), India. Avanish Kumar Srivastava is the director of the CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal, India. He is an expert in nanoscale measurements and instrumentation, and his research interests lie in nucleation growth, phase transformations, microstructures, and defects.

• 1. General Introduction: Background2. Industrial Waste Materials3. Agricultural Waste Materials4. Plastic/Polymeric Waste Materials