Graphene-Bearing Polymer Composites

Suprakas Sinha Ray was born in 1973 in India and completed his PhD studies at the University of Calcutta in 2001, and then postdoctoral fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan and Laval University, Canada studying the structure-property relationship in nanoclay-containing polymer nanocomposites. He started working on fundamental understanding to real applications of polymer-based nanostructured materials when he joined (October 2006) the CSIR as a group leader. These studies advanced and broadened when he was appointed as a chief researcher and founding director of the DSI-CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre and growing to the present time with scientists, engineers, technologists, postdoctoral fellows, students, collaborators and industrial partners worldwide. Currently, more than 115 researchers, engineers and technologists are working at the Centre. He is one of the most active authors (Cited more than 34000 times, h-factor of 77, GoogleScholar) in the field of polymernanocomposite materials and his work has been featured on various international journal cover pages on 17 occasions. Recently, he has been rated as the Top 1% of most impactful and influential scientists (Chemistry, Materials Science and 22 Science disciplines) by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators. In 2011, he also has been rated as a Top 50 high impact chemist in the world (Feb. 2011, Thomson Reuter, probably youngest researcher in this list, 1.2 mil Chemists). So far he has given more than 65 plenary/keynote/invited presentations in various international conferences and organized/co-organized several international conferences. Prof. Ray is the author of 9 books, co-author of 8 edited books, 30 book chapters on various aspects of polymer-based nano-structured materials & their applications, and author and co-author of more than 505 articles in high-impact international journals, 14 articles in peer-review international conference proceedings; 30 articles in national and