ICNF 2025 - 7th International Conference on Natural Fibers
Mohammad Jawaid
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Natural Fiber-Based Hybrid Composites for Ballistic ApplicationsDistinguished Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. |
Biography
Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is a Distinguished Professor in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE. With over 25 years of experience spanning teaching, research, and industry, he is a recognized authority in the fields of hybrid composites, natural fiber-reinforced composites, advanced materials, and nanotechnology.
Dr. Jawaid's research interests encompass hybrid composites, lignocellulosic fiber-reinforced polymer composites, advanced materials such as graphene, nanoclay, and fire retardants, as well as the treatment and modification of lignocellulosic fibers and solid wood. He also focuses on biopolymers for packaging applications, nanocomposites, nanocellulose fibers, and polymer blends.
To date, Dr. Jawaid has authored 90 books, 95 book chapters, and more than 500 peer-reviewed international journal papers. Several of his review papers were ranked among the top 25 hot articles on ScienceDirect between 2013 and 2020. He holds six patents and six copyrights/industrial designs. His research impact is reflected in his Scopus H-index of 95 with over 38,177 citations and a Google Scholar H-index of 113 with 51,512 citations. His Web of Science H-index is 82.
Dr. Jawaid has supervised 40 Ph.D. and 17 Master's students (2014–2024) in diverse fields including hybrid composites, green composites, nanocomposites, and natural fiber-reinforced materials. He has secured numerous research grants totaling approximately USD 2.1 million at university, national, and international levels.
He is frequently invited to deliver plenary and keynote talks at prestigious international conferences in countries such as India, Turkey, Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Spain, and China. Additionally, he actively contributes to the technical committees of national and international conferences on composites and materials science.
Dr. Jawaid serves as the founding Series Editor of three book series published by Springer and has been a guest editor for special issues of several high-impact journals. As a reviewer, he collaborates with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, SAGE, ACS, and RSC.
His accolades include numerous national and international awards. Notably, he was the winner of the 2015 Newton-Ungku Omar Coordination Fund: UK-Malaysia Research and Innovation Bridges Competition. Dr. Jawaid is a Fellow and Chartered Scientist of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3), UK, and holds professional memberships in organizations such as ACS, SPE, APA, and MySET. In 2023, he was recognized among the top 1% of highly cited researchers by Clarivate.
Abstract
Nowadays Researchers and Industries get encouragement to use alternative materials such as natural fibres to replace synthetic fibres in different application due to government regulation and people awareness towards utilization of eco-friendly products. Researchers also needs high-performance materials that led to study various method in producing new material through modification or synthesis of polymers. Hybridizing natural and synthetic fibers in a nano filler modified polymeric composites or blending two polymers will provide better properties for structural applications. In this work we carried out two study, ist study deals about development of Coir/Kevlar and the addition of GNP (Graphene nanoplatelets) on coir/Kevlar hybrid composites for development of techno economic hard body armour. body armour. 2nd study carried on flax(F) with carbon/Kevlar (CK) reinforced bio-phenolic/epoxy blends hybrid composites for ballistic helmet. We used AHP (Analytical hierarchy process) method to select suitable natural fibres which is naturally woven novel Cocos nucifera sheath (CS) to be hybridized with Kevlar-29 for ballistic applications. Hybrid composites fabricated by using Kevlar and Cocos nucifera sheath layers in the epoxy matrix through hand lay-up method and also GNP coated hybrid composites fabricated for comparative study. Another hybrid composites developed by hybridizing flax with carbon/Kevlar in bio-phenolic/epoxy with different ratio of Flax fabric and carbon/Kevlar fabric. The ballistic testing’s were performed as per international standards. The obtained ballistic results indicated that CS/epoxy composite show similar energy absorption and ballistic limit compared to Kevlar/epoxy composites due to chemical composition and, architecture of CS’s. We did not find significant improvement in hybrid composites by addition of GNP. The high velocity impact test of hybrid composite 25F75CK showed no significant effect in energy absorption and ballistic limit compared to carbon/Kevlar composites. The study found that the hybrid composite 25F75CK has the best overall mechanical properties and comparable ballistic properties to carbon/Kevlar composites. Hence, this new eco-friendly material has potential for use in ballistic body armour and helmet applications.