Raju Kumar Gupta is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He graduated with a PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He has received several awards such as DST Inspire Faculty Award 2013, IAAM Young Scientist Award 2014 and IEI Young Engineer Award (2014-15). His research interests include surface chemistry, green synthesis of nanomaterials, high dielectric constant materials, polymer and polymer-inorganic hybrid materials for electric energy storage, hybrid perovskite solar cells, electrospinning of functional polymers and nanocomposites for environmental and energy applications. A member of several international journal editorial boards, Dr. Gupta has authored more than 30 research articles in SCI journals, 2 books and 7 book chapters. Mrinmoy Misra is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He graduated with a PhD from Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, India. He has received awards such as Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur postdoctoral fellowship, 2015, Award of science & engineering research board (SERB) National Post-Doctoral fellowship, 2016. His research interests include thin-film fabrication, nanomaterial based senor, photo catalytic materials, nanoparticle synthesis and characterization and solar cells. Dr. Misra has authored 8 research articles in SCI journals. He has also delivered papers at several international conferences.

• 1. Introduction to semiconductor nanomaterial and its optical and electronics propertiesManoj Kumar Nayak Sr. and Jaswant Singh2. Core–shell nanostructures: an insight into their synthetic approachesSuman Singh, Vishaldeep Kaur, JYOTI SINGH and Nishant Kumar3. Characterization of metal, semiconductor, and metal-semiconductor core–shell nanostructuresKumud Malika Tripathi4. Metal/semiconductor core/shell nanostructures for environmental remediationRajib Ghosh Chaudhuri5. Metal-semiconductor core–shell nanomaterials for energy applicationsBhaghavathi Parambath Vinayan and Rupali Nagar6. Metal-semiconductor core–shell nanostructured photocatalysts for environmental applications and their recycling processKunal Mondal7. Metal and metal-semiconductor core–shell nanostructures for plasmonic solar cell applicationsRahul Ranjan, Narendra Singh, Mrinmoy Misra and Raju Kumar Gupta8. Core–shell nanostructures as a platform for sensing applicationsPawan Kumar, Ki-Hyun Kim and Vasudha Bansal