Renewable Polymers and Polymer-Metal Oxide Composites

Dr. Sajjad Haider is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since May 2009. His research work focuses on the development of carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, the synthesis of biopolymer and metal oxide composites, synthesis of polymer hydrogels, and electrospun nanofibers for biomedical and environmental applications. He is on the editorial board of the Makara of Technology Series and Journal of Chemical Engineering and Material Science. Dr. Haider has co-edited two books and co-authored seven book chapters. Dr. Adnan Haider is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS). He has also worked at the Department of Chemistry at Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan. His research work focuses on the development of metal nanoparticles, the synthesis of biopolymer and metal oxide composites, and electrospun nanofibers for biomedical and environmental applications. Dr. Haider has co-edited two books and co-authored seven book chapters.

• Part 1: Basic principles of composite materials1. Composite Materials: General Concepts, Recent Advances and Applications2. Theory of polymer composites: Structure, properties and the structure-property relationship3. Traditional and recently advanced synthetic routes of metal oxide materials4. Design and synthesis of metal oxide-polymer compositesPart 2: Features of polymer-metal oxide composites applications5. Medical applications of polymer and functionalized nanoparticle composite systems6. Polymer-metal oxide composites: An eco-friendly material for water treatment7. Polymer/metal oxide composites electrodes in energy devices8. Progress and challenges for optically active polymer-metal oxide composites9. Metal oxide-polymer composites properties near the percolation threshold10. Polymer-metal oxide composites for sensing applicationsPart 3: Polymers from renewable resources and their applications11. Materials from renewable resources: new properties and functions12. Sustainable polymers from renewable resources: A future macromolecular material13. Polysaccharides-metal oxide composites: A green functional material14. Food packaging materials from renewable polymers and their metal-oxide composites15. Advances in renewable polymer-metal oxide systems for tissue engineering16. Lignin-metal oxide composites for photo catalysis and photovoltaics