• Gender: Male
• Age: 39
• Designation: Fresh/Entry Level
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Expected Gross Salary: USD  36000 /Annum
• Work Experience: 9.8 Year(s)

Education

Senior Research Fellow, from CIPET, Chennai, India in 2012-2015 with first class

Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2009 - 2011 with first class

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, from CVSR College of Engineering, JNTU-Hyderabad, India in 2004 - 2009 with first class

12th standard, from Sri Vikas Junior College, Guntur, AP, India in 2002 - 2004 with first class

10th standard, from Navodaya Residential School, Guntur, AP, India in 2001 - 2002 with first class

Skill Sets

Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication.
Polymer Chemistry, Science and Engineering.
Fabrication of fiber reinforced polymer composites.
Having adequate knowledge to handle the following sophisticated instruments such as, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and Heat deflection temperature (HDT).

Work Experience

Ph. D Thesis
Title: “A Study on Synthesis and Characterization of Sisal Fiber reinforced Bio-based Epoxy Composites and Nanocomposites”.
Ph. D Supervisor: Dr Smita Mohanty
Status: Submitted and waiting for examiner reports.
Sr. Scientsit, LARPM, CIPET, Bhubaneswar, Odisa-751024
Description: Epoxy resins are one of the thermosetting polymers that often exhibit high tensile strength and modulus, excellent chemical and corrosion resistance and good dimensional stability. Hence they are widely used in structural adhesives, surface coatings, engineering composites, and electrical laminates. The major drawback of cured epoxy resins are extremely brittle in nature due the presence of rigid 3-dimensional network formed on their backbone. As resulted they have limited utility in applications requiring high impact and fracture strengths. During my research, I have focused to improve the toughening properties of the epoxy monomers by modifying with several polymers and fillers. My research broadly divided into three steps:
In the first step, the experimental details with characterization techniques of surface modified and unmodified sisal fibers were reported.
In the second step, the unsaturated polyester (UP) toughened epoxy has been reported. The effect of various properties of nanoclays and sisal fibers on the UP toughened epoxy system has also been studied.
In the third step, the synthesis of bio-based epoxy resins from the castor oil i.e. epoxidized castor oil (ECO) and acrylated epoxidized castor oil (AECO) has been reported. The primary focus of this step has to replace the DGEBA epoxy with the bio-based AECO based epoxy system. Secondary focus has to study the synergistic effect of both nanoclay and sisal fiber on the AECO toughened DGEBA blends.

M.Tech Project
Title: Energy Recovery in a Polypropylene Production Process
Supervisor: Prof. D. Mukherjee,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur

B.Tech Project
Title: Design a plant to produce 1 tons/day of Acrylonitrile
Supervisor: Prof. M. Bhagavantha Rao,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
CVSR College of Engineering, Hyderabad

International Publications
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2014). Synthesis and Modifications of Epoxy Resins and Their Composites: A Review. Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, 53 (16), 1723-1758.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2015). Studies on Thermal degradation and Flame Retardant behaviour of the sisal fiber reinforced Unsaturated Polyester toughened Epoxy nanocomposites. Journal of applied polymer science, 132(24), 7425-7440.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2015). Effect of Cloisite 30B clay and Sisal Fiber on Dynamic Mechanical and Fracture behavior of unsaturated Polyester toughened Epoxy blend. Polymer Composites, DOI:10.1002/pc.23480.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2015). Synthesis and Characterization of Acrylated Epoxidized Castor Oil Nanocomposites. International journal of Polymer analysis and characterization, 20 (4), 298-306.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2015). Cure kinetics of exfoliated bio-based epoxy/clay nanocomposites developed from acrylated epoxidized castor oil and diglycidyl ether bisphenol A networks. High Performance Polymers, DOI:0954008314566052.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. (2015). Fabrication and Evaluation of Acrylated Epoxidized Castor oil toughened Diglycidyl ether Bisphenol A Nanocomposites. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, In Press.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. Effect of Nanoclay on the Mechanical, Thermal and Water absorption properties of an UP-toughened epoxy network. The Journal of Adhesion, In Press.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. Unsaturated polyester toughened Epoxy composites: Effect of Sisal Fiber on Thermal and Dynamic mechanical properties. The Journal of Vinyl and Additives Technology, In Press.
Paluvai, N. R., Mohanty, S., & Nayak, S. K. Mechanical and Thermal degradation behaviour of sisal fiber reinforced castor oil based epoxy nanocomposites (Revisions has been submitted to the Journal of Reinforced Plastic and Composites).

Research Papers Presented In International Conferences
International Conference on APM-2015, 20-22 Feb 2015, Bangalore, India.
International Conference on Macro, 23-26 Jan 2015, Kolkata, India.
International Conference on ICEEMS’14, 10-12 Dec 2014, Cochin, India.
International Conference on Biomaterials-2014, 27-30 Oct 2014, New Delhi,
India
International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials, 8-10 Feb
2013, Lucknow, India
Poly Tech India, 17-19 December 2012, Pune, India
International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials, 8-10
March 2012, Ahemdbad, India

Reviewer
Advances in Chemistry (Hindawi)
Biological and Chemical Research (Science Signpost Publishing)
Cogent Chemistry (Taylor and Francis)
Material Letters (Elsevier)
Polymer Bulletin (Springer)
Polymer Engineering and Science (Wiley)
Polymers for Advanced Technologies (Wiley)
Springer (India) Private Limited (Book reviewer)
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Wiley)

Future Goals

To make a worthy contribution seeking an opportunity, to continuously learn & be a part of challenging and creative role with commitment, to attain excellence & benefit the organisation.