Single-Polymer Composites (ePub)

Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor at the Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. A gold medalist from the University of Kolkata, he subsequently did his Masters and PhD from IIT Delhi. He worked with Arvind Mills, Ahmedabad, had been teaching in various colleges in India and was with the Fibrous Materials Research Group, University of Minho, Portugal as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with the prestigious FCT grant before joining the Department. He has been working with synthetic and natural fibers, fiber reinforced composites and concrete systems, sustainable approaches in textile chemistry, color science and technological interventions in handloom sector. Presently he is part of research groups working on clothing for extreme weather protection funded by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Government of India. He is also working with Design Innovation grants, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). He is involved in projects with joint funding from industry and Government of India for developing practical solutions for industry under the Uchhatar Abhiskar Yojana (UAY).

He has been working with single polymer composites for the last two decades. Part of his Phd work was using polypropylene filaments in single polymer composites. He was the Principal Investigator of a project sponsored by GAIL, Government of India, on development of high impact structures from single-polymer composites from HDPE. The project was successfully executed and has been funded for second stage of execution jointly with Indian Institute of Packaging, Government of India for developing prototypes. He has also worked on all-cellulose composites systems jointly with the co-author.

Bapan Adak obtained B.Tech degree in 2010 from Govt. College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Serampore (West Bengal, India) in Textile Engineering. During his B.Tech, he worked on