Sustainable Hydrogels

Sabu Thomas is a Professor and Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Professor Thomas is internationally recognized for his contributions to polymer science and engineering, with his research interests encompassing polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites, nanocomposites, nanomedicine, and green nanotechnology. His groundbreaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bionanotechnology, and nano-biomedical sciences have significantly advanced the development of new materials for the automotive, space, housing, and biomedical fields.Dr. Bhasha Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, India. She received her BSc (2011) in Polymer Sciences from the University of Delhi, and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2019. Her research interests revolve around sustainable polymers for packaging applications, environmentally benign approaches for biodegradation of plastic wastes, fabrication of bionanocomposites, and finding strategies to ameliorate the electrochemical activity of biopolymers. Dr. Purnima Jai is an Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry in Netaji Subhas University of Technology. She is the founder of laboratory “Advance Centre for Polymer Science in Department of Chemistry in NSUT. She has completed her M. Tech and Doctorate from Centre for Polymer Science & Technology, IIT Delhi. Besides teaching chemistry her general research interests are development and characterization of blends, alloys and nanocomposites of polymers. Shashank ShekharAssistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, India Dr. Shashank Shekhar is currently an Assistant Professor at Netaji Subhas University of Technology and is also associated with the Quantum Research Centre of Excellence as Associate Director in the Department of Renewable Energy. He completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Delhi. Dr. Shekhar has been working on biopolymers and Schiff base metal complexes for the last 5 years and has published articles in reputed international journals.

• 1. Hydrogels: An overview of the history, classification, principles, applications, and kinetics2. Sustainable production of hydrogels3. Characterization tools and techniques for sustainable hydrogels4. Structure-property-function relationships of sustainable hydrogels5. Nanohydrogels for achieving green economy6. Peptide and protein-based hydrogels7. Polysaccharide-based hydrogels8. Eco-friendly and biodegradable cellulose hydrogels9. Lignin-derived hydrogels10. Sustainable polyester hydrogels11. Carbon-based hydrogels12. Bioinspired, biomimetic hydrogels13. Sustainable hydrogels in food packaging systems14. Sustainable hydrogels as an emerging material platform for water purification15. Hydrogel-based vascular grafts: State of the art16. Sustainable hydrogel-based cell therapy17. Hydrogels and their combination with lipids and nucleotides18. Complementing the circular economy with a life cycle assessment of sustainable hydrogels and their future prospects