Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites

Dr. P.M. Visakh (MSc, MPhil, PhD) is a prolific editor with more than 50 books already published. He is a research associate at the Natural Bioactive Materials Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, Ege University, Bornova/Izmir, Turkey. He did his postdoctoral research in Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia (2014–2017). He obtained his PhD, MPhil, and MSc degrees from the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He edited 50 books from Scrivener (Wiley), Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, and more than 25 books in press (from Wiley, Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, and Elsevier). He has been invited as a visiting researcher in Russia (2014 to Present), Portugal (2013, 2014), Czech Republic (2012, 2013), Italy (2009, 2012), Argentina (2010), Sweden (2010, 2011, 2012), Switzerland (2010), Spain (2011, 2012), Slovenia (2011), France (2011), Belgium (2012), and Austria (2012) for his research work. He visited 12 countries; He visited 15 universities in Europe. He published 20 publications, 4 reviews, and more than 50 book chapters. He has attended and presented more than 28 conferences, has 3867 citations, and his h-index is 29. He acts as a guest editor for 4 International Journals. Dr. Artem Semkin (MSc, PhD) is currently working as a scientist in Department of Microwave and Quantum Radio Engineering, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Tomsk, Russia. He obtained his PhD from Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics. He has published more than 80 publications with more than 160 citations. His areas of research include: Polymer Sciences, Optics, Photonics, Photopolymers, Liquid Crystals, photopolymeric and liquid crystalline compositions. Zeynep Guven Ozdemir works at Yildiz Technical University in the Faculty of Science and Letts, Department of Physics, Instanbul, Besitas, Turkey.

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