​​​​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, Soft Matter, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, ACS Nano, Composites Part-A, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Small Methods, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Nanotechnology, Journal of Physics: Energy, JOM, Journal of Materials Research, Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials, 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.