About the Book
About the Author: Akil Ahmad is currently working at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, as Assistant Professor in Chemistry and having the experience of seven years as Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, and Postdoc and Visiting Researcher from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia. He has completed Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2011) from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He is Guest Editor of journals, namely Adsorption Science and Technology, Hindawi, Polymers MDPI, Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, and Journal of Chemistry, Hindawi. He has edited more than 10 books, published in Elsevier, Springer Nature, IOP publisher, etc., and worked as Research Assistant at Ekahala Resources Sdn Bhd, Malaysia. Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. He also obtained 3 patents and 6 copyrights. Recently, he joined as Chief Executive Editor of Pertanika UPM Journals. He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book Series from Springer Nature, and also Series Editor of Springer Proceedings in Materials and Springer Nature and also International Advisory Board Member of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Besides that, he is also Reviewer of several high-impact international peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc. Presently, he is supervising 12 Ph.D. and 6 master's students. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim obtained his B.Sc. (1994), M.Sc. (1997), and Ph.D. (1999) from Missouri S&T (formerly known as University of Missouri-Rolla, USA). He is currently serving as Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He had received fourteen international awards for his research outputs and currently served as a Guest Editor for Frontiers in Chemistry. He had supervised more than 20 graduate students. Recently, he is busy working in the microbial fuel cells topic especially in developing a novel electrode and had published several papers in well-reputed journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal and Journal of Cleaner Production. At the moment, he is Pioneer on MFCs research topic in the School of Chemical Sciences, USM. Asim Ali Yaqoob obtained his B.Sc. (2010), M.Sc. (2014), and M.Phil. (2018) from Mirpur University of Science and Technology Mirpur, Mirpur, 10250, Ajk-Pakistan. Recently, he completed his Ph.D. (2021) from School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), under the supervision of Dr. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim. His area of interest is energy generation coupled with wastewater treatment, and currently, his project is on Microbial Fuel Cells. He has published 22 articles in high reputed journals and several book chapters. He is also Co-author for an academic book (Graphene: A Versatile Advanced Material) published by USM Press, Malaysia. He has completed M.Phil. in Material Chemistry (2018 from Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), AJK Pakistan. He is also Invited Reviewer of many reputed international journals such as Nanotechnology Reviews, International Journal of Energy Research, Journal of Chemistry, PLOS ONE, and many others. Mohammed B. Alshammari is currently working at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia, as Professor in Organic Chemistry. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA, in 2007 under supervision of Professor Abdullah Almajed and Professor Hassan Alhazmi. He worked in chemistry department in KSU for 9 years as Researcher. He received his Ph.D. degree from Cardiff University, UK, in 2013 under supervision of Professor Keith Smith. His research focused in using of organometallic intermediates in organic synthesis. He has published more than 60 International peer-reviewed journal publications and 20 conference proceedings in the area of organic chemistry and chemistry.
