Prof. Vijay Mannari is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Coatings Research Institute at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He has more than 30 years of combined experience in the field of polymeric materials and coatings, in industrial R&D, technical consulting, and in academia. Prof. Mannari is the recipient of a number of awards and accomplishments, including the Michigan Governor’s Green Chemistry Award in 2012, and was very recently inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (RadTech). His research interests include the development of sustainable polymers and coating materials, sol-gel derived functional coatings, Photo-curable coatings, Non-isocyanate polyurethanes (NIPU), and the study of structure-property relationships in polymeric materials.