Sustainable Materials for Rubber and Allied Industries

Traditional rubber products contain rubber and multiple additives, many of which come from fossil fuel sources. This book highlights developments in the science and technology of sustainable materials in the rubber industry and covers both materials and the ingredients necessary to make a product.

Anil K. Bhowmick is Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston. He is a former Professor of Eminence, former Head of Rubber Technology Centre, and former Dean (Postgraduate Studies and Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prof. Bhowmick is the Founder Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.

R. Mukhopadhyay is Director & CE of Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He is the Chairman of the Indian Rubber Institute and President of the Indian Rubber Material Research Institute.

Jagannath Chanda is a Senior Research Scientist in Research and Development at Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He received his PhD in polymer chemistry from Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany.

Barun Kumar Samui is Principal Scientist at Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He is a visiting faculty of the Indian Rubber Institute, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, as well as an empaneled assessor of National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, India.

Riya Koley received a PhD in sustainable materials from the Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur. She worked as a project officer in a MHRD-funded Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana-HPN project. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.