About the Editors

Dr. Faruq Mohammad is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Surfactant

Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. His
postdoctoral research experiences are from the Institute of Advanced Technology,
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; School of Pharmacy, Northwest University,
Republic of South Africa; and Health Research Center, Southern University, LA,
United States. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Environmental
Toxicology, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
in 2011 and holds his M.Sc. degree in Organic Chemistry from India. He also served as
the Lecturer for about 3 years at the Department of Chemistry, Southern University,
United States. His research interests include the development of sustainable polymers
for biomedicine, theranostic devices for the simultaneous diagnosis and therapy, poly-
meric nano drug delivery systems for malaria and cancerous diseases, understanding of
the nanomaterials toxicity, hyperthermia-based therapy, natural biomaterials for waste-
water treatment, to name a few. So far, he has edited one book and published about 60
journal articles, 5 review articles, 15 book chapters, and 2 patents at issuing stage
(United States and Malaysia). He is currently serving as an editor for Austin Journal of
Environmental Toxicology (United States) and as the reviewer for Journal of Colloidal
and Interface Science (Elsevier), Materials Science and Engineering B (Elsevier),
Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry), Environmental Science: Nano (Royal Society
of Chemistry), Biomacromolecules (American Chemical Society), and Polymer compo-
sites (Wiley).

Prof. Hamad A. Al-Lohedan has more than 37 years of extremely active and pro-
ductive career in the field of surfactant, colloids, and interfaces chemistry. After finish-
ing his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry in 1979 from the University of California, United
States, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1981. He worked in
the field of physical organic chemistry involving the role and applications of surfactants
on the rate of organic reactions. His work on the reactions catalyzed or inhibited by
surfactant is of prime importance in understanding the interactions between surfactants
and organic molecules. This interaction can be the basis for further studies to serve the
mankind for developing the materials toward the removal of organic and inorganic
impurities from water during its treatment. He has been deeply involved in teaching,
evaluation, and administrative activities after joining the King Saud University,
Riyadh. His keen interest in research has rewarded him in the publication of good
and large number of research articles in journals (about 260) with high impact factors.

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He always pursued the current trends in research in surfactant, polymeric surfactants,

and ionic liquids chemistry. He is also working on drug proteins, drug polymers,
and surfactant proteins interactions and some of his projects deal with the inhibition
of amyloid fibrils by using surfactants and ionic liquids. He has served the university in
the capacity of Deputy Chairman and Vice Dean. He has been a consultant at the
Ministry of Higher Education for the last 17 years and other sectors. He is an active
member of many scientific societies and councils and committees. Currently, he is also
the Supervisor of the Surfactant Research Chair and the guide of the colloid and
interfaces research group at King Saud University.

Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as High Flyer 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 has more than 14 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His
research interests include hybrid composites, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer
composites, advance materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, modification and
treatment of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood, biopolymers and biopolymers for
packaging applications, nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends.
So far, he has published 37 books, 65 book chapters, more than 350 peer-reviewed
international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot
articles in science direct during 2013 18. He also obtained two patents and three
copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 46 and 9085 and in Google scholar,
H-index and citation are 52 and 12,449. He worked as guest editor of special issues of
SN Applied Science, Current Organic Synthesis, Current Analytical Chemistry,
International Journal of Polymer Science, and IOP Conference Proceedings. He is
also an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Polymers and the Environment, Journal
of Plastics Technology, Applied Science and Engineering Progress Journal, Journal of
Asian Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Recent Innovations in Chemical
Engineering. Besides that, he is also a reviewer of several high-impact international
peer-reviewed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Saga, ACS, RSC, Frontiers, etc.
Presently, he is supervising 16 Ph.D. students (5 Ph.D. as Chairman and 11 Ph.D.
as Member) and 8 Master’s students (2 Master as Chairman, and 6 Master as Member)
in the fields of hybrid composites, green composites, nanocomposites, natural fiber-
reinforced composites, nanocellulose, etc. Twenty Ph.D. and 11 Master’s students
graduated under his supervision in 2014 20. He has several research grants at univer-
sity, national, and international levels on polymer composites of around 3 million
Malaysian ringgits (USD 700,000). He also delivered plenary and invited talks in inter-
national conferences related to composites in India, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, the
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United Kingdom, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and China. Besides that, he is also a
member of technical committees of several national and international conferences on
composites and material science. Recently Dr. Mohammad Jawaid received Excellent
Academic Award in the category of International Grant-Universiti Putra Malaysia,
2018 and also Excellent Academic Staff Award in industry High Impact Network
(ICAN 2019) Award. Beside that Gold Medal-Community and Industry Network
(JINM Showcase) at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He also received Publons Peer Review
Awards 2017 and 2018 (Materials Science), Certified Sentinel of Science Award 2016
(Materials Science) and 2019 (Materials Science and Cross-field). He is also the winner
of Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research and Innovation
Bridges Competition 2015.