Carbohydrate Polymer Nanotechnologies

Dr. Kummari S.V. Krishna Rao is currently working as Professor, Department of Chemistry, Yogi Vemana University (since 2008), Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India. Earlier he has worked on the carbohydrate-based drug conjugates and anticancer drug delivery systems at Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea during 2006-2008 as Postdoctoral Fellow. And worked on polymer nanocomposites for biomedical applications at Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea as Research Professor. In addition, he worked on Nanomedicine on the “Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Polymers and their Conjugates for Drug Delivery Applications”, at Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, as UGC-RAMAN Postdoctoral Fellow.Dr. K.V.N. Suresh Reddy is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, GITAM School of Science, GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was postdoctoral researcher at National Chung Hsing University and National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan during 2008-2010. He has supervised four Ph.D. students, and eight Ph.D. students are now working. He has 42 national and international publications and five book chapters. He is a reviewer for several international journals. He is a member of the "Indian Journal of Advances in Chemical Science" editorial board. His current research interests are designing natural polymeric and solid lipid nanoparticles-based drug delivery systems, and fabrication of electrochemical systems.Dr. Madhusudhan Alle is currently serves as Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Memphis, TN, USA. Previously, he held positions as a Research Professor at Department of Biomedical Science & Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kangwon National University, South Korea. Prior to that, he was  Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, Gondar University, Gondar, Ethiopia, from 2014 to 2018. During his tenure, he undertook responsibilities as the Coordinator of MSc (Chemistry) Programs and Head of the Chemistry Department, supervising four students who submitted their master’s theses under his guidance. He received his doctorate from the Department of Chemistry, Osmania University, India in 2013, where he conducted research projects sponsored by University Grants Commission, India.

• Introduction to Carbohydrate Polymer based nano biomaterials.- Recent advances in nanocellulose functionalization and its applications.- Recent trends in carbohydrate polymer nanocomposites for electro chemical biosensor development.- Carbohydrate polymer nanotechnology and its application in drug delivery.- Carbohydrate Polymers based nanocomposites for organic pollutant removal.- Application of carbohydrate Polymers based nanocomposites in fuel cells.- Carbohydrate Polymers based nanocomposites for water purification technologies.- Preparation and applications of carbohydrate polymer-based hydrogels.- Green methods for functional modification of carbohydrate polymers and its nanocomposites.- Biomedical applications of carbohydrate polymer-based nanomaterials.- Nanocomposites of carbohydrate polymers in environmental remediation.- Carbohydrate polymer nanocomposites used in cancer imaging and therapy.- Nanocomposites of carbohydrate polymers for hydrogen storage.- Surface modifiedcarbohydrate polymer based optical materials and their applications.- Functionalized carbohydrate polymers-based metal nanocomposites for antimicrobial application.- Functional carbohydrate polymer materials in nanobiotechnology.- Nanocomposite materials of carbohydrate polymers in cancer drug delivery.- Application of carbohydrate polymers and its carbon nanocomposites.- Carbohydrate polymer nanomaterials for automotive components.- Food packing applications of carbohydrate polymer nanomaterials.