Professor Sabu Thomas has more than 30 years’ experience in Polymer Science and Technology and has contributed greatly to the research and development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof Sabu Thomas received his Ph. D from IIT , Kharagpur and then joined as a Senior Visiting Researcher, A Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium and AND Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Subsequently, he served as Associate Professor and Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is one of the pioneers of the field of polymer science and technology and has published over 750 peer reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters. He has co-edited nearly 73 books and is the inventor of 5 patents. He has supervised 79 Ph. D theses and his H-index is 79 with nearly 29790 citations. Prof. Thomas has delivered over 300 Plenary/Inaugural and Invited lectures in national/international meetings over 30 countries.
Professor Sabu Thomas is presently the Director of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is an outstanding leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Thomas’s ground breaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green nanotechnological and nano-biomedical sciences, have made transformative differences in the development of new materials for automotive, space, housing and biomedical fields. He is currently,the chief editor of Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects and also serves the reviewer for several International journals . He has established a state of the art laboratory at Mahatma Gandhi University in the area of Polymer Science and Engineering and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Professor Thomas has received a number of national and international awards which including, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, MRSI medal, Nano Tech Medal, CRSI medal, Distinguished Faculty Award, and Sukumar Maithy Award for the best polymer researcher in the country. He is in the list of most productive researchers in India and holds a position of No.5. Thomas has been conferred Honoris Causa (D.Sc) by the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France in 2015 and in May 2016 he was awarded Loyalty Award in “International Materials Technology Conference Exhibition. Recently in 2017 he has been selected for conferring with D.Sc from University Lorraine France. To add to this he recently was also selected for Life time achievement award by Indian Nano-Biologist Association (INBA).
Elastomers are usually reinforced and employed widely because of their extensive and potential applications. The use of nanosized fillers like graphene in the development of rubber composite material have become a fascinating area of research because of the dramatic improvement it can produce in the properties at very low filler content and also because of the possibility of tailoring the properties to meet the demands in versatile industrial applications.The excellent combination of different super physical properties like Young’s modulus (1TPa)[1],ultimate strength (130GPa)[2], electrical conductivity (600S/cm)[3],thermal conductivity (5000W/Mk)[4]etc. which is not known to be usual to other materials, makes graphene, one of the promising nanofillers for elastomer reinforcement. In this review presentation,the recentadvancesin the fabrication of graphene based elastomer nanocompositesdone in our group will be discussed. Thework will be focused on the effect of graphene oxide based natural rubber andchlorobutyl composites for various applications like EMI shielding, barrierproperty enhancement etc. The dependence of this thinnest known material, especiallyin the electrical, mechanical dielectric and barrier properties will be discussedalong with detailed examples drawn from the scientific literature. Differentrubbers have been used to fabricate graphene filled elastomer nanocomposites. Natureof rubber, graphene functionalization etc. could impart noticeable improvementin the mechanical, dielectric and barrier properties.[5],[6],[7]
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[5]Yaragalla, S., Chandran, C. S.,Kalarikkal, N., Subban, R. H. Y., Chan, C. H., & Thomas, S. (2015). Effectof reinforcement on the barrier and dielectric properties of epoxidized naturalrubber–graphenenanocomposites. Polymer Engineering &Science.
[6]Yaragalla, S., Meera, A. P.,Kalarikkal, N., & Thomas, S. (2015). Chemistry associated with naturalrubber–graphenenanocomposites and its effect on physical and structuralproperties. Industrial Crops and Products, 74, 792-802.
[7]Sadasivuni, K. K., Ponnamma, D., Thomas, S., &Grohens, Y.(2014).Evolution from graphite to graphene elastomer composites. Progress in Polymer Science, 39(4), 749-780.
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