Antiviral and Antimicrobial Smart 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 is currently working as an Assistant. Professor in the Metallurgical & Materials Department at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He completed his PhD at IIT-Kharagpur in 2016. He received the National "IEI Young Engineer Award" in 2022, "Yuva Rattan Award" in 2020, "C.V. Raman Award" in 2019, and "young faculty award" in 2017. He has published more than 180 publications, including books, Book chapters, and Journals. 05 PhD students awarded under his supervision and more than 10 PhD students are from his institute/outside the institute are working on different projects with him. Currently, he has published one textbook "Advanced Materials" which is a recognized book worldwide (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80359-9). Currently, assigned as The Honorary Secretary of The Institution of Engineers (India), Rourkela. His area of research is high temperature materials, surface engineering, smart materials, aero-space materials and characterization of materials. He is one of the Director of AMPRE ENGG. PVT. LTD. (https://ampre.co.in/) which target is to design the materials for the aero-industries using ‘additive manufacturing’ technique. Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS. Ram Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States. His research focus is in green energy production and storage using nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers and composites as well as bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.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 a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.

• 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 coating23. 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