POLYMER-PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
EDITOR:MUNMAYA K. MISHRA
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EDITORIAL BOARD
T. M. AMINABHAVI, Department of Chemistry, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India
D. G. BUCKNALL, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
K. Y. CHOI, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
C. K. DAS, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Q. FU, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
A. J. GIACOMIN, Department of Chemical Engineering, Polymers Research Group, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
H. ISMAIL, School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, University Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia
D. KAZMER, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
B. H. KIM, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
S. KUMAR, School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
A. PENLIDIS, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
D. SCHMIDT, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
M. L. SHOFNER, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
P. J. SCOTT, 3M Company, Decatur, Alabama, USA
A. ROMO-URIBE, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Y. WANG, Biomaterials Laboratory, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, Missoura, USA
G. E. WNEK, Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
D. YAO, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
H. ZHOU, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Indexed/Abstracted in: CEABA; Chemical Abstracts; Current Contents/Engineering, Computing and Technology; Engineered Materials Abstracts; Engineering Index/COMPENDEX PLUS; Fluid Abstracts/FLUIDEX; INIST-Pascal/CNRS; INSPEC; Materials Information; Materials Science Citation Index; Plastics Rubber Fibers; Polymer Blends, Alloys & Interpenetrating Polymer Networks Abstracts; Polymer Contents; Rapra Abstracts Database; Reaction Citation Index; Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE); Urethene Abstracts; World Textile Abstracts; and WORLD TEXTILES.
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