Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods

Dr. Akira Otsuki is a Visiting Professor at Luleå University of Technology, and the Unit coordinator and leading professor of the unit “Mine Tailings” at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He is a member of several academic societies as well as an editor of academic journals including ChemEngineering and Recycling. He also serves as a guest editor of special issues, including “Colloidal/Fine Particle Aspects of Mine Tailings”. His research focuses on characterization and processing of complex materials, including waste materials, natural ores, and colloids. He has been developing and running national and international research projects on his research focuses.Seiko Jose PhD is a scientist, working at ICAR-Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Rajasthan, India. He has over 17 years’ experience in textiles including time spent in industry and academia. His industrial experience is focused on wet processing of cotton, silk, and linen processing units. For the last 8 eight years of his research career, he has worked with a range of natural fibres such as, wool, jute, pineapple leaf fibre, coir, flax, and ramie. He has contributed to 30 research papers and 9 book chapters. His major research areas are extraction and characterization of natural fibre, textile dyeing and finishing, eco-friendly textile processing, natural fibre composites, and natural dyes. Dr. Manasa Mohan A. graduated in 2010 from University of Kerala, India, completing post-graduation with first rank from the Department of Chemistry, and also received a gold medal in chemistry from the University of Kerala. She completed her PhD in polymer-based drug delivery systems in 2018. She is now working as a Kothari postdoctoral fellow in Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. Professor Sabu Thomas is currently an Emeritus Professor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University. He is a Senior Professor of Christ University, Bangalore, India. He is also a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. He is the Chairman of the TrEST Research Park, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The H index of Professor Thomas is 163 and he has more than 133,000 citations

• 1. Introduction to Non-Destructive Material Characterizations2. Optical Microscope (Interferometric and non- interferometric optical microscope techniques)3. Polarized Microscope4. Atomic Force Microscopy5. Non-Destructive Imaging of Buried Interfaces Using Decelerated Electron-Beam in Scanning Electron Microscopy6. Scanning Probe Microscope7. Transmission Electron Microscope8. Neutron Imaging9. Infrared Thermography: Philosophy, Approaches, Analysis - Processing, and Guidelines10. Non-Destructive Material Testing in Welding: Ultrasonic Scanning11. Diffraction with X -Rays and Neutrons12. Raman Spectroscopy - Part 1 13. Raman Spectroscopy - Part 214. UV-Vis Spectroscopy in Non-Destructive Testing15. Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) and X-Ray Diffraction Techniques (XRD): Non-Destructive compositional, electronic, chemical and structural in-depth characterization in the tens-of-nanometer scale16. X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy17. Mass Spectrometry18. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry19. Dielectric Spectroscopy and Techniques20. Element Analysis with Neutrons21. X-ray Stress Analysis22. Neutrons – Characteristics and Sources23. NDT of Steel Components based upon their Magnetic Answer24. Cloud-Based Non-Destructive Characterization25. Complementary Results of Non-Destructive Elemental Assay and Liberation Analysis of Waste Printed Circuit Boards26. Future Perspectives on Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods towards Sustainability and Circular Economy