Clay Composites

Clays and Clay Minerals: Long Lasting Applications in Environmental Remediation.- Clay Composites: Physico-chemical Characterization.- Computational Chemistry Tools for Atomic Level Investigation of Clay Composites.- Advances in the Development and Applications of Clay-based Composites.- Synthesis and Characterization of Clay-biochar Composites.- Application of Clay-biochar Composites as Adsorbents for Water Treatment.- Clay-biochar Composites: Emerging Applications in Soil.- Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions using Clay-biochar Composites.- Surface Modification of Clay with Organics.- Organoclay with Surfactants: Detoxification of Hazardous Compounds.- Surfactant Modified Clay Composites: Water Treatment Applications.

Meththika Vithanage is a Professor and founder of the Ecosphere Resilience Research Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Before joining University of Sri Jayewardenepura, she has worked at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Her academic background covers environmental remediation of toxic metals, antibiotics, agrochemicals, serpentine soil chemistry, and waste biomass conversion. She received the prestigious Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award from The World Academy of Science (TWAS) in 2020 and she became the Chairperson of the Young Scientists Forum in 2017. She received prestigious General Research Committee Award by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019. She was awarded as the Best Young Scientist, 2018 by the Young Scientist Forum of the National Science and Technology Commission, Sri Lanka and in 2016 she became the Young Scientist in Chemistry by the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. She was selected as one of the Early Career Women Scientists by the Organization for Women Scientists in the Developing Countries, Italy. She served as the Chairperson of the Section for Engineering, Architecture and Surveying of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Sri Lanka in 2018. She has received Presidential Awards for Scientific Publications for 10 years. Further, she was listed as Top 2% of the most cited scientists across various disciplines globally in 2017, 2019 and 2020. She has contributed over 150 Science Citation Indexed journal articles, over 30 book chapters and 4 co-edited books published by Elsevier Inc. She additionally contributed to 2 Korean patents and 1 Sri Lankan patent for environmental remediation of antibiotics using biochar and synthesis of nanozero valent iron. She has served in many national and international scientific committees to promote science.