Encyclopedia of Green Materials

Chinnappan Baskar is Associate Professor and Head in the Department of Chemistry, School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics, Pattimura University, Ambon, Indonesia. He received M. Sc Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and PhD in Organic and Materials Chemistry from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He has worked as Director, Himalayiya University (now Sparsh Himalaya University), Dehradun; Director, Research and Development Center, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad; Director (Officiating); THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology Tehri, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India; Brain Korean 21 (BK21) Research Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, and Co-researcher in Energy and Environmental Fusion Technology Center, Myongji University, South Korea. His research interests include Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Conducting Polymers, Green Chemistry and Engineering, Ionic Liquids, Biomass Conversion; Biodegradable Polymers, Green Materials, Circular Economy, Solid Waste Management and Sustainable Development Goals. He has published several research papers in reputed international journals with high impact factors and citations. He was Editor-in-Chief, Handbook Solid Waste Management, Springer Nature (2022), Singapore and Editor of Biomass Conversion: The Interface of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Materials Science (Springer-Verlag, 2012); Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Chemistry Letters, a journal of Taylor & Francis Groups, United Kingdom (2020-2021). Dr. Baskar is Author and President of YSB Foundation, Public Charitable Trust, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng, is Director of Center for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He chairs the Circular Economy Taskforce, and a member of Enterprise Singapore’s ISO/TC323 committee on Circular Economy. He has co-authored over 1,000 SCI listed international journal papers. He received his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge, UK. He received numerous recognitions which include CUT Honorary Engineering Doctorate, ASEAN Outstanding Engineer Award; UK Cambridge Nehru Fellowship, Singapore LKY Fellowship, and more. He facilitated large scale research and innovation partnerships with world leading universities in USA, Europe, and Asia.

Angela Daniela La Rosa is Associate Professor of the Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is a chemist with a strong focus on polymer composites and environmental impact including LCA/LCC. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry of Polymer Materials, carried out in the Wilton International Research Centre (UK), within the Strategic Technology Group of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries). Prof. La Rosa started her education on LCA and LCC in 2006 through a research visit at the Division of Environmental Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and by attending an advanced course in Life Cycle Assessment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden. Since then, she has published several articles on LCA applied on polymer composites. Currently she teaches a course on LCA of energy systems and a course on LCA for Ecodesign at NTNU, Norway.