Advanced Materials from Recycled Waste

1. General Introduction: Background
2. Industrial Waste Materials
3. Agricultural Waste Materials
4. Plastic/Polymeric Waste Materials

Sarika Verma is currently working as Principal Scientist at Materials for Radiation Shielding and Cement free Concrete division CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI), Bhopal - 462026, MP, India. She has more than fifteen years of diverse experience in Research and Teaching in CSIR & other academics Institutes such as CSIR-AMPRI, Bhopal Govt. of India, respectively. She was awarded a Ph. Din Chemical Sciences from BarakatullahUniversity, India. Thereafter, she worked in different capacities like a research scientist at Technische universitad, Darmstadt, Germany, Pool Scientist (CSIR-HRDG, New Delhi), and Women Scientist (DST). She is the recipient of various prestigious awards like young scientist,women scientist etc. She has around 20 patents filed. Over the years, she has been intensively engaged in multiple R & D to design and develop advanced materials useful for different broad application spectrums like cement-free materials, Radiation shielding materials, polymeric composites, biomedical and energy materials via novel techniques. She has experience in transferring the know-how technology to industries likeM/S HCL, M/S Assurays, etc. Dr. Raju Khan is currently a principal scientist and associate professor in the Industrial Waste Utilization, Nano and Biomaterials at the CSIR-Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, India, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sensor Research Laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He has more than 15 years of R&D experience at CSIR and other academic R&D institutes. His current research is on electrochemical biosensors integrated with microfluidics for clinical applications. 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. Dr. Avanish Kumar Srivastava is the Director, CSIR – Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute, Bhopal. He received his master’s degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (UOR), Roorkee, MTech. in Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and doctorate in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He serves as an expert for nanoscale measurements and instrumentation at ISO and BIS. He was instrumental in establishing the high-resolution electron microscopy & spectroscopy facilities at CSIR-NPL New Delhi and AMPRI Bhopal. His prolific research on the growth of engineering materials and understanding on nucleation-growth, phase transformations, microstructures & defects is outstanding and known by his peers world-wide. His in-situ annealing experiments under electron beam on the interfacial diffusion of aluminium into amorphous Si, has enlightened the dynamic process of Si-crystallization in reality. He has reported two crystal structures in polymer-tungsten oxide nanostructures and also elaborated concept of irrational twinning of cubic crystals leading to quasiperiodic structures. His work on DNA: CNT coupling is exemplary in bio-technology.
Dr. Srivastava has published 250 articles in peer reviewed journals and ten patents. He serves as Chief Editor of the journal “Applied Innovative Research”. He has published a Book entitled, Oxide Nanostructures: Growth, Microstructures and Properties. He is instrumental in transferring seven technologies including non-toxic radiation shielding tiles, cement free concrete, hybrid green composites, electricity free water filter, bamboo composites, and surface plasma resonance substrate for Raman spectroscopy, to leading companies.
Dr. Srivastava is President of the Electron Microscope Society of India. He is eminent member of governing council of TIFAC, Govt. of India. As a coordinator of Young Scientists’ Conclave under India International Science Festival, IISF – 2016, he was able to organize large number of plenary lectures, oral & poster presentations and demonstrations / presentations by Start-ups, etc.