​​​​Polymers and Smart Nanotextiles Group

Journals & book proposals

• Received the IOP Trusted Reviewer status from the Institute of Physics Publishing, UK in January 2024. This status is awarded only to the very best peer reviewers (top 15% of the reviewers). 

• Referee by invitation for more than 50 international journals from ACS, RSC, Elsevier, IOP, IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Springer Nature, and SAGE. Representative list of journals for which services are rendered: Advanced Functional Materials, CrystEngComm, Dalton Transactions, Soft Matter, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ACS Nano, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Small, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Polymer International, Nanotechnology, Journal of Physics: Energy, JOM, Journal of Materials Research, Nano-Micro Letters, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials, Chemical Science, and Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials.

• Reviewer for book proposals by: Springer-Verlag, 2014, CRC press, 2019, and Elsevier Science, 2019.

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PhD and PG theses (numbers of theses are given in parentheses)

• Refereed Ph.D. theses from

  • The University of New South Wales, Australia (1)

  • Kyung Hee University, Korea (1)

  • National Institute of Technology Trichy, India (1)

  • National Institute of Technology Calicut (2)

  • Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (1)

  • Cochin University of Science and Technology, India (10)

  • Anna University, India (5)

  • Madurai Kamaraj University, India (1)

  • Mahatma Gandhi University, India (6)

  • University of Mumbai (1)

  • Visvesvaraya Technological University, India (4)

  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India (4)

  • Chettinad Academy of Research & Education, India (1)

  • Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, India (1)

  • Christ University, India (1)

• Refereed master's theses (4) from School of Materials Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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Others

• Doctoral advisory committee member for Manipal University, Manipal and Yenepoya University, Mangaluru since 2018.

• Question paper auditor for Dr.Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, 2022.

• Reviewer for proposals submitted to KSCSTE (Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment)'s Emeritus Scientist Scheme and BLP Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2023. 

• Examiner for PhD course work, Department of Chemistry, University of Calicut, 2023.