Recycling of Plastics, Metals, and Their Composites (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367708474)

R.A. Ilyas received his Diploma in Forestry at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu Campus (UPMKB), Sarawak, Malaysia from Mei 2009 to April 2012. In 2012, he was awarded the Public Service Department (JPA) scholarship to pursue his Bachelor's Degree (BSc) in Chemical Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Upon completing his BSc. programme in 2016, he was again awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) by the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to undertake a PhD degree in the field of Biocomposite Technology & Design at Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP) UPM. R.A. Ilyas was the recipient of Gold Medal Malaysian Vaccines & Pharmaceuticals (MVP) Doctor of Philosophy 2019, and Top Student Award (Institute of Tropical Forest and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia). In 2018, he was awarded with Outstanding reviewer by Carbohydrate Polymers, Elsevier United Kingdom, Best Paper Award (11th AUN/SEED-Net R egional Conference on Energy Engineering), Best Paper Award (Seminar Enau Kebangsaan 2019, Persatuan Pembangunan dan Industri Enau Malaysia), and National Book Award 2018. His main research interests are: (1) Polymer Engineering (Biodegradable Polymers, Biopolymers, Polymer composites, Polymer-gels) and (2) Material Engineering (Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites, Biocomposites, Cellulose materials, Nano-composites). He has authored and published more than 34 citation-indexed journals on green materials related subjects. To date he has authored or co-authored more than 133 publications (40 papers published/accepted/submitted in national and international journals, 1 authored books, 7 edited books, 48 chapters in books, 10 conference papers, 2 research bulletin and editor/co-editor more than 3 conference/seminar proceeding and 22 conference proceedings/seminar papers/presentation.

S.M. Sapuan is a professor of composite materials at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He earned his B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Newcastle, Australia in 1990, MSc from Loughborough University, UK in 1994 and Ph.D from De Montfort University, UK in 1998. His research interests include natural fiber composites, materials selection and concurrent engineering. To date he has authored or co-authored more than 1521 publications (730 papers published/accepted in national and international journals, 16 authored books, 25 edited books,153 chapters in books and 597 conference proceedings/seminar papers/presentation (26 of which are plenary and keynote lectures and 66 of which are invited lectures). S.M. Sapuan was the recipient of Rotary Research Gold Medal Award 2012, The Alumni Medal for Professional Excellence Finalist, 2012 Alumni Awards, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, Khwarizmi International Award (KIA). In 2013 he was awarded with 5 Star Role Model Supervisor award by UPM. He has been awarded "Outstanding Reviewer" by Elsevier for his contribution in reviewing journal papers. He received Best Technical Paper Award in UMIMAS STEM International Engineering Conference in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. S.M. Sapuan was recognized as the first Malaysian to be conferred Fellowship by the US-based Society of Automotive Engineers International (FSAE) in 2015. He was the 2015/2016 recipient of SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair. In 2016 ranking of UPM researchers based on the number of citations and h-index by SCOPUS, he is ranked the 6th from 100 researchers. In 2017, he was awarded with IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award by Institute of Physics, UK, National Book Award, The Best Journal Paper Award, UPM, Outstanding Technical Paper Award, Society of Automotive Engineers International, Malaysia, and Outstanding Researcher Award, UPM. He also received in 2017 Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald, UK, SAE Malaysia the Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE/TMU Endeavour Research Promotion Award, Best Paper Award by Chinese Defence Ordnance and Malaysia's Research Star Award (MRSA), from Elsevier. Besides, in 2019, he was awarded with Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRMS 2019) and Professor of Eminence Award from AMU, India. Emin Bayraktar is Full Professor, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at SUPMECA/Paris. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD in materials science and manufacturing engineering, CNAM - Arts et M騁iers/Paris and Habilitation (HDR) in mechanical and materials science engineering, University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI. He has served as Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore, 2012; Xi'an Northwestern Technical University, 2016, and University of Campinas, UNICAMP-Brazil, 2013-2023. He has advised & co-advised 32 PhD and more than 120 MSc theses. He has published more than 200 publications in international journals and conferences and 90 research reports.

Professor Emin Bayraktar (Habil., Dr (PhD), DSc- Dr es Science) is an academic & research staff-member at Mechanical & Manufacturing engineering at SUPMECA/Paris, France. His research areas include Manufacturing Techniques of new materials (basically composites - hybrid), Metal Forming of thin sheets (Design + test + FEM), Static & Dynamic behaviour and optimisation of materials (Experimental & FEM - Utilisation and design of composites based metallic & non-metallic, powder metallurgy, energetic materials aeronautical applications) based metallic, non metallic, powder metallurgy and Metallurgy of steels, welding, heat treatment as well as processing of new composites, Sintering techniques, Sinter -Forging, thixoforming, etc. He has authored more than 200 publications in the International Journals and International Conference Proceedings, and has also authored more than 90 research reports (European = Steel Committee projects, Test + Simulation). He already advised 32 PhD, and 120 MSc Thesis already advised and 7 is going on. He is a Fellow of WAMME (World Academy of Science in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering), Editorial Board - Member of JAMME (International Journal of Achievement in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering), Advisory board member of AMPT-2009 (Advanced Materials Processing technologies), APCMP-2008 and APCMP-2010. He was Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore in 2012, Xi'an Northwestern Technical University, Aeronautical Engineering, in 2016, University of Campinas, UNICAMP-Brazil in 2013 until 2023. He is recipient of Silesian University Prix pour "FREDERIK STAUB Golden Medal-2009" by Academy of WAMME, ｫWorld Academy of Scienceｻ -Poland, materials science section, and recipient of William Johnson International Gold Medal -2014, AMPT academic association.