Ram Naresh MahalingDr. Ram Naresh Mahaling is a Reader in the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University since 2017. He has received his Ph.D. in Polymeric and Elastomeric Nanocomposites from the Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and 14 years of research experience and has published more than 55 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and authored three book chapters. His current areas of research include the synthesis of perovskite-type metal oxide (BaTiO3, BiFeO3, CaTiO3, etc) based polymer composite materials for electronic applications and energy storage, nanocomposites and structure-properties relationships. He has visited the Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany, and University of Orleans, France for two-and-half years as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has received three (03) research projects from different funding agency, (01) Government of Odisha, 01(UGC New Delhi) and 01 (DST SERB, New Delhi). Twelve (12) M.Phil students and two (02) Ph.D students have been awarded under his guidance. Read More Read Less