Mohd Shabbir obtained his PhD in the field of natural dyes application on textiles from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India in 2017. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Sanskriti University, Mathura, India where his main research focus is in natural dyes, nanomaterials for textiles, smart textiles, textiles chemistry and bio-synthesis of functional compounds for textiles. Shakeel Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the Higher Education Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He obtained his PhD in the area of biopolymers and bionanocomposites from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2016 and has published several research publications in the area of green nanomaterials and biopolymers for various applications including biomedical, packaging, sensors, and water treatment. He has 15 books to his credit by international publishers. His work has been cited more than 2000 times and with h-index of 16. Javed Sheikh is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Textile and Fibre Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. His research group is mainly working on the interface of materials science and textile technology which includes functional textiles, sustainable textile chemical processing, natural dyeing and biopolymers for textile processing. He has co-authored more than 50 research papers in highly reputed journals and presented more than 30 research presentations and invited talks in various national and international conferences.