Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Micro-Nano Materials & Innovative Technology (ICSUMMIT 2026)
International Conference on Sustainable Micro-Nano Materials & Innovative Technology (ICSUMMIT 2026)
đVadodara, Indiađïž 13-14 February 2026
29 articles
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Peer-Review Statements
Juhi Saxena, Prince Jain, Mahendra Singh Rathore, Mohit Tannarana
All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Micro-Nano Materials & Innovative Technology (IC-SUMMIT 2026) during 13th -14th, February, 2026 in Parul University Vadodara, Gujarat, India. These articles have been peer reviewed by...
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Comprehensive Study on the Structural, Electrical, and Thermistor Behaviour of Sodium Manganese Titanium Tungstate Ceramic
S. B. Bhoobash, M. Suman Kalyan, C. Behera
A mixed B-site double perovskite ceramic, Na2(Mn0.5Ti0.5)WO6, was synthesised via a conventional solid-state route and comprehensively examined for its structural, microstructural, dielectric, impedance, and thermistor properties. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that the ceramic exhibits a dual-phase...
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Synthesis and Characterization of a Magnetised Nano Catalyst Derived from Pomegranate Seed Biomass
Dhruv Thakar, Harshita Gaikwad
This study describes the synthesis and characterisation of a novel magnetically recoverable nano-catalyst (MAC) from pomegranate seed biomass, promoting value addition to agricultural waste for sustainable materials. The synthesis used a controlled pyrolysis and acid activation approach to prepare a...
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A Comprehensive Review of Metal Matrix Composites: Materials, Methods, and Performance
Sushila Vadu, Unnati Joshi, Anand Joshi
Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have emerged as an important class of engineered materials in which the ductility and toughness of metallic matrices are combined with the strength and functional capability of ceramic or carbon reinforcements. The review summarizes recent developments, identifies gaps,...
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Structural, Optical, and Dielectric Studies of Eco-Engineered Eu3âș-Activated Hydroxyapatite from Fish Bone Waste for Multifunctional Applications
M. Krishnam Raju, Krunal Patel, Raj Kumar Samudrala, Neelima Kamjula, P. Abdul Azeem
In the present work, hydroxyapatite (HAp) was sustainably extracted from fish-bone biowaste and converted into a functional ceramic material through appropriate thermal treatment. The thermal behavior of the biogenic precursor was investigated using thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis...
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Strain-Induced Performance Modulation in IGBT Devices: A TCAD-Based Analysis
Alok Naugarhiya, Ketan Deshmukh, Kundan Kumar, Vidya Bhushan Rathore, P. N. Kondekar, Jitendra Kumar Singh
In this paper, the performance of an IGBT with a Si0.75Ge0.25 layer in the p-body is analyses using TCAD. SiGe has a small bandgap, enhancing carrier mobility and hole injection efficiency and improving conduction characteristics. The simulation results show that the SiGe-engineered IGBT has a total...
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Design and Enhancement of Gate-Stacked Recessed-Gate HEMTs with Back-Barrier for RF Applications
Bhavinkumar Shekhada, Tarun Chaudhary, Mandeep Singh
Gate electrostatic control has become crucial for the reliable working of enhancement-mode GaN based high-frequency and power transistors. In this work, recessed-gate GaN HEMT with a stacked gate dielectric and an AlGaN back-barrier layer is analyzed using TCAD simulations and is compared with a former...
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Integration of MicroâNano Spirometry and Air Quality Sensors to Predict Respiratory Morbidity among Street Vendors and Its Implications in Community Health Nursing: An Integrative Review
S. Karthika, Vruti Patel
Street vendors represent a large informal occupational group in urban India and are continuously exposed to traffic-related air pollution, significantly increasing their risk of respiratory morbidity. Conventional spirometry, although considered the gold standard for lung function assessment, is limited...
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Adaptive Traffic Segregation and Simulation in Software-Defined Healthcare Networks
Bhargavi Dalal, Pooja Sapra
Increasing dependency and demand on digital healthcare systems, needs for secure, efficient, and intelligent management of patient data traffic have become critical. This research explores the study of patient related network traffic in a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) environment. Some promising...
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AI-Powered Personalized Healthcare Monitoring
Nidhi Haridas, Ananya Bhat, Safrina Bellary, Lavanya Salian, Madhvi Saxena, Prashant Saxena
Many of todayâs monitoring technologies are based on scheduled check-ins which can introduce delays in dealing with chronic disease. To overcome this disadvantage, in this work, we propose an artificial intelligence based Personalized Healthcare Monitoring System that employs Deep Learning and optimized...
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Seizure-Sentry: A Wearable Multi-Channel EEG Monitoring System with Deep Wave Net-Based Seizure Prediction
Ramji Gupta, Madhur Raiyani, Alpana Pandey, Richa Mishra, Mukul Jain, Priyansh Dwivedi
Epileptic seizures occur unpredictably and can severely impact patient safety and quality of life. Accurate seizure prediction from EEG signals enables timely intervention and improves clinical decision-making. This paper presents Deep Wave Net, a compact hybrid convolutionalârecurrent neural network...
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High-Efficiency Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Sensors for Diverse Optical Sensing Applications
Snehprabha Gujarathi, Swati Sharma
In modern time, PCF based sensors are primarily attribute towards strong lightâmatter interaction, superior sensitivity, and versatile structural design providing for advanced optical sensing application which collectively enables efficiency and precise sensing. This paper presents a thorough review...
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Comprehensive Review of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Drone Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, and Deployment Challenges
Yogesh S. Dighe, R. A. Kapgate, P. M. Patare, Vishant Kumar
Reinforcement learning (RL) is proving to be a significant enabler of intelligent autonomy in UAVs, such that perception, decision-making, and control policies can be learned within drones through their interactions with complex and uncertain environments. Overall, while traditional model-based control...
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Detection of Multimodal Deepfake: Datasets, Evaluation Metrics, and Approaches
Sampada Aditya Kulkarni, Pooja Sapra
Manipulated multimedia is a critical challenge in our day to day life. In the preceding decades, rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning has resulted in new techniques and various tools for altering media formats. Advanced AI tools are used to produce fabricated...
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Adaptive Spike-Encoded Hybrid CNNâSNN Framework for Energy-Efficient Facial Emotion Recognition
Aakanksha Taliwal, Ramji Gupta
A Major element of affective computing, intelligent surveillance, and humanâmachine interaction is facial emotion analysis. However, the great accuracy of current deep learning-based models, like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), comes with a high computational and energy cost, making them unsuitable...
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A Comprehensive Review of Chronic Kidney Disease Using Machine Learning
Kaushal Sharma, Saurabh Shah, Snehlata Barde
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a significant public health issue leading to considerable morbidity and mortality and necessitating early diagnosis for its prevention from advancing to the end stage of renal failure. Recently, machine learning (ML) has also been applied as an effective technique to predict...
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IoT-Enabled Monitoring and Control Framework for Rotary Friction Welding Processes: Smart Manufacturing Integration
Vishal Makvana, Snehal Trivedi, Bharat Tank, Vipul Dave
Rotary Friction Welding (RFW) represents a critical solid-state joining methodology in advanced manufacturing sectors, yet conventional implementations suffer from parameter inconsistency and limited process transparency. This research investigates the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies...
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Boosting Image Quality with Generative Adversarial Networks in the context of Super-Resolution
Arunesh Pratap Singh, Rasna Nikunjkumar Patel, Ankita Verma, Sanjay Pagare, Alok Singh Kushwaha
Image super-resolution (SR) plays a vital role in enhancing low-resolution data across applications such as remote sensing, medical imaging, and video processing. Traditional interpolation and statistical methods often fail to recover fine details, whereas deep learning approaches, particularly GAN-based...
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Machine Learning-Based Diagnosis of Postpartum Depression Methods and Insights
Neesha Nayee, Saurabh Shah, Hetal Bhaidasna
A serious mental health condition that affects new moms, postpartum depression (PPD) frequently has a negative impact on both the mother and the child. Conventional screening techniques, including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), limit early intervention because they mainly concentrate...
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Hybrid Deep Learning for Brain Tumor Segmentation in MRI Videos
Swati V. Sakhare
Precise Brain Tumor Detection from MRI video scans is essential for effective treatment planning and diagnosis at early stage. Current methods often fight to model spatio-temporal dependencies, address class imbalance, and generalize across heterogeneous datasets. To overcome these limitations, this...
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Glaucoma Detection Using Machine Learning: A Review
Divya Panchal, Swapnil Parikh, Sanjay Agal
One of the main causes of permanent blindness in the globe is glaucoma, and successful treatment depends on early detection. Automated glaucoma identification utilising fundus and optical coherence tomography (OCT) images has been made possible by recent developments in machine learning (ML) and deep...
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Next-Generation Flow Improvers for Waxy Crude Oil: Unveiling the Performance of Hybrid Additives through CFD and Rheology
Zarana Patel, Jinal Patel, Prabha Modi, Salman Hadi Dahwal, Ashish Nagar
Crude oil continues to be a major obstacle to effective pipeline transportation due to its very high viscosity, inclination toward wax crystallisation, and multiphase flow behaviour. Each of these characteristics increases flow resistance, which raises energy costs and creates operating difficulties....
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Performance Study of Micro Vortex Generator Over An Aerofoil
K. Balaji, Ankit Bhai Patel, S. Saranya, M. Vishnupriya, G. Balaji, Hariharan Thangappan
The objective of this study is to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of the aerofoil using novel method of minute vortex generators. The simulation work was carried out using Reynold Average Navier Stokes equation with k omega SST turbulence model to evaluate the aerodynamic performance in terms of lift,...
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Impact of a CuâBaSnSâ HTL on Interface Recombination Kinetics of Formamidinium Perovskite Solar Cells
Alok Singh Kushwaha, Arunesh Pratap Singh, Shailendra Kumar Mishra, Alok Agarwal
Formamidine exhibits favourable optoelectronic characteristics and significant potential and enhanced thermal stability as a perovskite; however, their device performance is often constrained by interfacial charge losses and defect-mediated recombination processes. In this work, comprehensive numerical...
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Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in Li-ion Battery Pack Using PCM and Ionanofluid
Ranita Sen, Omprakash Bharti, Shubhrajyoti Kundu, Kamlesh Parmar
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are widely used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems. However, efficient thermal management use is essential to maintain safety, performance, and operational life of Li-ion batteries. In the current study, three-dimensional (3D) transient numerical simulations...
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Spray-Deposited Fluorine-Free Polymer Coatings via Fatty-Acid/Oxide Interphases for Extreme Water Repellency
Mahesh Chaudhari
To achieve fluorine-free superhydrophobicity, a combination of long-chain carboxylates and polar metal-oxide nanophases is used. The materials are incorporated into off-the-shelf polymer matrices, and the obtained coatings are deposited via scalable spray deposition. The coatings can show low surface...
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Vapor-Phase Thin-Film Polymerization for Microbial-Resistant Surface Functionalization
Mahesh Chaudhari
The focus of this paper is the so-called functional polymer thin films deposited via all-dry vapour-phase processes including CVD, plasma-enhanced CVD, and paracyclophane-based CVD, with the aim of engineering substrate-independent microbial-resistant surfaces for a broad range of healthcare, membrane...
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Microstructural Analysis of Drilled Hole in CFRPs Using a Passive Magnetorheological Elastomer
Punit Patel, Sachin Patel
In recent developments, Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics (CFRPs) components have drawn substantial attention in the aviation industry due to their environmental stability and lightweight properties. One of the most common machining operations carried out before the final assembly of any complex component...
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Induction Heat Treatment of Fasteners: Process Parameters, Temperature Uniformity, and Modeling-Based Optimization â A systematic Review & case study
Rahul Chauhan, N. K. Chavda
Over the years, induction heating has become a widely used method for heat treating fasteners because it delivers heat quickly and exactly where itâs needed. This localized control is critical in a production environment. Heat can be applied to the heads of bolts or threads (or both) in seconds with...