Kalim Deshmukh, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience working with wide variety of nanomaterials, and polymeric materials, especially polymer blends, nanocomposites and nanohybrids for various applications. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization and property investigations of polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers including various metal oxide nanoparticles and carbon based nanomaterials for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications. He has over 185 publications with renowned international publications such as the The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), The American Chemical Society (ACS), Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and Taylor & Francis etc. Besides, he has edited/co-edited over 25 books for Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-VCH, Wiley Scrivener, ACS and RSC publications
