Section A: Overview on microbes and viruses 1. Introduction to the microbial world and associated diseases 2. Fungal and Viral pathogens, classification, and associated diseases 3. Various materials surfaces and growth of microbes and viruses on it 4. Identification and culture tests 5. Microbe- and virus-philic surfaces 6. Microbe- and virus-phobic surface coating 7. Industrial environment and microbes/virus growth
Section B: Smart Coatings 8. Introduction to smart coatings 9. Working principles of various smart coating on microbes/virus growth 10. Effect of shape responsive coating on microbes/virus growth 11. Electric responsive coating and microbes/virus growth 12. Magnetic responsive coating and microbes/virus growth 13. Synthesis techniques of smart coatings 14. Smart coatings and biomimetics 15. Biomaterials and biomimetics
Section C: Antibacterial, antifungal and Antiviral smart coatings 16. Polymeric antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings 17. Nanotechnology in antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings 18. Nanomaterials based smart coatings for antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities 19. Green antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral coatings 20. Effect of smart coating and durability 21. Hybrid antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral smart coatings
Section D: Methods/standards for characterization of smart coatings 22. Characterization methodologies for smart coating 23. Screening methods to determine antibacterial activity 24. Molecular Network Approach 25. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry 26. Physical and mechanical property measurement of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating 27. Erosion property evaluation of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating 28. Chromic property measurement of antiviral/ antibacterial smart coating 29. Current standards and their limitations/concerns for testing the antibacterial activity of smart coatings
Section E: Current and predictable scenario 30. Prediction and optimization of materials surface with respect to bacteria, fungus and virus growth 31. Role of Smart coating to eliminate COVID infection 32. Edible and food safe antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings 33. Industrialization of antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings 34. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts smart coating 35. Human safety and environmental concerns of antiviral and antimicrobial smart coatings 36. Laws and developments to implement antimicrobial coatings
Dr. Aditya Kumar received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany. His research interests include coating, anti-wetting, functionalized coating, nanotribology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, interfacial phenomena, and materials science. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM) Dhanbad, India. He is an author and co-author of more than 55 publications in refereed journals.
Dr. Ajit Behera completed his Ph.D. from IIT-Kharagpur in 2016. He received the National "Yuva Rattan Award" in 2020, "young faculty award" in 2017 and the "C.V. Raman Award" in 2019. He has published more than 80 publications including Book, Book Chapter, and Journals. His research interest is smart materials, additive manufacturing, 3D & 4D printing, NiTi-alloys, plasma surface engineering, nanotechnology, magnetron sputtered thin film, cryo-treatment, and utilization of industrial waste. He has published two patents related to smart materials.
Dr Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received his BSc in Physics from Hanoi University in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Paris Diderot University (France) in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University (South Korea, 2004) and University of Wollongong (Australia, 2005). He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at the Montana State University (USA, 2006-2009). His research interests include smart coatings, conducting polymers, corrosion and protection of metals/concrete, antibacterial materials, and advanced nanomaterials.
Dr Bilal obtained his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a specialization in Bioengineering and Applied Biotechnology. He has published more than 700 scientific contributions in the form of Research, Reviews, Book Chapters and Editorial type scientific articles in various areas of Science & Engineering. He is Associate Editor of the Bioengineered (Taylor & Francis), Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (Frontiers). He is also works as Guest editor, and editorial board member for various journals. He has edited several special issues and books and serves as a scientific reviewer in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Bilal has a collaborative network with national and international institutes/universities across the globe.
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta's research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.