Polymers and Composite Materials for Packaging: Smart Food Packaging and Solutions
暫譯: 包裝用聚合物與複合材料：智慧食品包裝與解決方案

本書旨在幫助讀者更好地理解在包裝領域中使用的聚合物及聚合物基複合材料。內容涵蓋了這些聚合物和複合材料在各種包裝應用中的機制、重要方面、特性、配方、關鍵元素以及案例研究。為了激勵研究者，本書還強調了該領域最新的研究成果以及未來研究的潛在方向。

Prof. (Dr.) Akarsh Verma is currently an Assistant Professor at the UPES (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies), India. He obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India; and did his postdoctoral research work at Brigham Young University (USA) and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellow at Osaka University (Japan). He serves the research community by acting as a reviewer for various International journals (Nature, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, IOP, etc.) and has reviewed several research articles. In addition, he has published various research articles in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals, many books and book chapters, and has also presented many research papers at various international/national conferences. His areas of interest are computational mechanics, computational chemistry, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, nanocomposites, etc.

Hariome Sharan Gupta is currently working in the Department of Polymer and Process
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee Saharanpur Campus, Paper Mill Road Saharanpur, India. He holds M. Tech (IIT BHU, Varanasi) in Material Science
Department and B. Tech (CIPET, Lucknow) in Plastics Engineering Department. His research interests include packaging of polymeric materials, design of polymeric materials, environmental issues and solution by polymeric materials, hybrid polymer composites and polymer composites and polymer nanocomposites, adhesives and coatings, applications of additives and fillers, polymer and composites processing/compounding, predictions of polymer composites by models and equations. He has several published and communicated research publications in international peer reviewed SCI journals.

Prof. (Dr.) Sushanta Kumar Sethi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering at IIT Dharwad, India.
Prior to this, Dr. Sethi worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS) at IIT Bombay, India. He successfully completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Polymer & Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee. Dr. Sethi holds an M. Tech from IIT Kharagpur and a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from BPUT, India. His research interests encompass various areas such as computational materials science, self-clean coatings, functional nanomaterials/quantum dots and their applications, multi-scale molecular modeling and simulations of polymer materials, development of novel and environmentally sustainable polymer composites and nanocomposites, as well as coatings and adhesives. Dr. Sethi has an impressive publication record with various research publications in internationally recognized SCI journals, international conferences, and book chapters. He has made significant contributions to esteemed peer-reviewed journals in the field of Polymer engineering and science, ACS sensors, and Polymers, among others. His remarkable achievements include receiving the Best Doctoral Thesis Award for Polymer & Process Engineering from IIT Roorkee and recognition from the Science Technology Engineering and Management society.

教授（博士）Akarsh Verma 目前是印度石油與能源研究大學（UPES）的助理教授。他在印度理工學院（IIT）魯爾基獲得機械工程博士學位，並在美國楊百翰大學進行博士後研究，還曾擔任日本學術振興會（JSPS）國際研究員於大阪大學。他通過擔任多本國際期刊（如 Nature、Elsevier、Springer、Sage、Taylor & Francis、Wiley、IOP 等）的審稿人來服務研究社群，並已審閱多篇研究文章。此外，他在高品質的國際同行評審期刊上發表了多篇研究文章，出版了多本書籍和書章，並在各種國際/國內會議上發表了多篇研究論文。他的研究興趣包括計算力學、計算化學、量子力學、分子動力學、納米複合材料等。

Hariome Sharan Gupta 目前在印度理工學院（IIT）魯爾基薩哈朗普爾校區的聚合物與工藝工程系工作。他擁有印度理工學院（IIT BHU，瓦拉納西）材料科學碩士學位和印度塑料工程學院（CIPET，勒克瑙）塑料工程學士學位。他的研究興趣包括聚合物材料的包裝、聚合物材料的設計、環境問題及其解決方案、混合聚合物複合材料、聚合物複合材料和聚合物納米複合材料、黏合劑和塗料、添加劑和填料的應用、聚合物和複合材料的加工/混合，以及通過模型和方程對聚合物複合材料的預測。他在國際同行評審的 SCI 期刊上發表了多篇研究論文。

教授（博士）Sushanta Kumar Sethi 目前在印度理工學院（IIT）達爾瓦德的機械、材料與航空工程系擔任助理教授。在此之前，Sethi 博士曾在印度理工學院（IIT）孟買的冶金工程與材料科學系擔任博士後研究員。他在印度理工學院（IIT）魯爾基的聚合物與工藝工程系成功完成博士學位。Sethi 博士擁有印度理工學院（IIT）卡哈爾古爾的碩士學位和印度 BPUT 的機械工程學士學位。他的研究興趣涵蓋計算材料科學、自清潔塗層、功能性納米材料/量子點及其應用、多尺度分子建模和聚合物材料的模擬、新型環保聚合物複合材料和納米複合材料的開發，以及塗料和黏合劑。Sethi 博士在國際知名的 SCI 期刊、國際會議和書章中擁有豐富的發表紀錄。他在聚合物工程與科學、ACS sensors 和 Polymers 等領域的著名同行評審期刊中做出了重要貢獻。他的卓越成就包括獲得印度理工學院（IIT）魯爾基的聚合物與工藝工程最佳博士論文獎，以及獲得科學技術工程與管理學會的認可。