Reza Taherian, Associate Professor and Head of the Polymer Research Laboratory, Faculty of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Iran. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering from Shiraz University in 2011. His research interests and related publication works center on carbon-polymer composites, with investigations of their porosity, conductivity, and mechanical and thermal properties. For Elsevier, he has previously authored Electrical Conductivity in Polymer-Based Composites (2018).
He has commercialized products through his company in the field of electrically and thermally conductive adhesives, and is actively involved in manufacturing and consulting with various companies on the production of composites reinforced with carbon and glass fibers for applications such as PEM fuel cells, aircraft bodies, and similar technologies.Prof. Dr. Ayesha Kausar is affiliated with National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her current research interests include design, fabrication, characterization, and exploration of structure-property relationships and potential prospects of nanocomposites, polymeric composites/nanocomposites, nanoparticles/polymeric nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanocarbons (graphene, carbon nanotube, nanodiamond, fullerene, etc.), inorganics/hybrid materials, nanofibers, nano-foam architectures, etc. Dr. Kausar's contributions to nano/materials science and technology fields include > 680 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Till now, she has contributed 10 Elsevier authored monographs as (i) "Multifunctional Carbon Nano-Onions Based Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Design and Applications, 2026; (ii) "Graphene Quantum Dots and Their Derived Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications, 2025; (iii) "Three-Dimensional Graphene Nanocomposites: Design, Characteristics, and Technical Potential, 2025; (iv) "Polymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties and Applications 2024; (v) "Shape Memory Polymer-Derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications, 2024; (vi) "Polymer/Fullerene Nanocomposites: Design and Applications 2023; (vii) "Polymeric Nanocomposites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers for Aerospace Applications 2022; (viii) "Graphene to Polymer/Graphene Nanocomposites: Emerging Research and Opportunities 2021; (x) "Conducting Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications 2021; (ix) "Electrical Conductivity in Polymer-Based Composites: Experiments, Modelling, and Applications 2018. Moreover, she contributed book chapters to > 150 international Books and Encyclopaedias. Her name has been listed in the world's Top 2% of scientists in the field of materials science & technology/nanotechnology in surveys conducted by Stanford University to recognize, in recent years.