Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (Paperback)

This book presents the select proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Emerging Materials, Smart Manufacturing, and Computational Intelligence. It provides cutting-edge knowledge about diverse technological evolutions, innovations, and developments in advanced materials and manufacturing for sustainability, energy, and health-based technologies. Further, this book expedites discussion that focuses on the recent developments and challenges in the field of sustainable and bio-inspired materials, advancements in energy engineering, green energy technologies, sustainable computing in healthcare, sustainable quantum computing, sustainable advancement in robotics and mechatronics, bio-sensors, bio-signals and medical imaging. It emphasizes sustainable development and promotes diverse methods to address field difficulties. This unique book contains the present bloom and curses in sustainable and smart manufacturing technology for a plethora of industrial applications like aerospace, automobile, marine, and biomedical specialization. This book serves as an excellent resource for beginner students, academicians, researchers, postgraduate students, scientists, and commercial manufacturers, and professionals of mechanical, manufacturing and mechatronics engineering, and other sustainable-related disciplines.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Katiyar holds the position of associate professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India. He has 10 years of teaching and research experience. His research interest includes modern manufacturing techniques, tribology of carbon materials, polymer composites, self-lubricating polymers, lubrication tribology, and coatings for advanced technologies. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from UPTU Lucknow in 2007 with honours. He received his master’s from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2010 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 2017. He is a life member of the Tribology Society of India, the Malaysian Society of Tribology, the Institute of Engineers, India, the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and was elected executive committee member of the Tribology Society of India for two years (2024–2025). Dr. Katiyar is also an editor and guest editor of multiple esteemed journals and publishers.

Dr. Ankit Sharma presently holds the position of Associate Director (Research) in the Center for Research, Impact, and Outcome (CRIO) at Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He received his doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in academics, research, consulting, training, and industry. Dr. Sharma is also the organizer and founder of the international conference-ICEMSMCI series 2023 and 2024—and serves as the general chair and convenor. He has authored numerous national and international publications in SCI, Scopus, and Web of Science-indexed journals.