Originally trained as a Chemist, Dr. Ashok Kumar Das has earned wide ranging research experience in working with emulsions, electrolytes, polymers, gas hydrates, targeted drug delivery using dendrimers, water harvesting technology, suspension rheology and nanomaterials processing. Currently, his research works focus on plant biotechnology, use of nanomaterials in bioconjugated materials, green synthesis of graphene and graphene oxide-based nanocomposites, preparation of dendrimer-polymer conjugates to be used as dose-dependent nanocarriers.Dr. Das has more than 35 years of research and teaching experience in India, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Ethiopia. For several of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) journals, Dr. Das regularly serves as an adjudicative reviewer.