Bacterial Cellulose

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 75 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited multiple books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

Dr.R.Rathinamoorthy, working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Fashion Technology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India from 2009. He had completed his Ph.D. on "Medical Textiles" in 2016. Recently he received the "Young Achiever Award" for the year 2019 by the Institute of Engineers India (IEI), coimbatore chapter. In 2017, He also received a national-level "Young Engineer award for the year 2016-17" in Textile Engineering domain, by Institute of Engineers India (IEI), Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is having a google H index of 11 and a Scopus H index of 7 with more than 400 citations. He had published 19 national and 53 international research articles in various refereed and non-refereed journals. He had presented three international conference papers and two national seminars. He authored 5 technical books in the area of Apparel and fashion technology field and 19 book chapters with various international publishers like Woodhead Publisher, Springer Verlag, Springer Nature, Springer Singapore, Taylor & Francis and Elsevier publishers to his credit. In 2011,he had sanctioned a research project from University Grants Commission for the tune of Rs.10.15 Lakhs and successfully completed it in 2013. He also sanctioned a minor project to the worth of rupees 0.15 lakhs under PSG STEP, an Initiative by DST, NSTEDB, Govt of India.

He has eleven years of teaching experience in the area of Textile and Fashion discipline. He also has one year industrial experience as an industrial engineer. His research interest is on sustainable material for textile and fashion industries. He is currently working on bacterial cellulose and other biomaterials to identify their potential in the fashion industry as a sustainable alternative to existing conventional materials.