Ref. No. : CA - 17199 - (Less than 1 year Exp. – with 10 years in Plastic Industry)

Education

Ph.D in Rubber Technology From Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITK) in Dec 2011 to 2015 

M.Tech  Plastics Engineering  CGPA 9.0 From   CIPET, Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Odisha in 2011

M.Sc Applied Chemistry (Polymer Science) CGPA 8.55 Department of Chemical From Sciences, Tezpur University, Assam in 2009

B.Sc  Chemistry From Gauhati University, Assam
in 2007 With 60.3%

Skill Sets

Microsoft office,  Origin 8,  8.5  XPert High Score Plus software; Image J (USA), PerkinElmer Spectrum software,  EndNote software,  Netzsch software for DSC analysis, Chemdraw 6.0.

Work Experience

Awards And Honors:
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2011, Conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) - Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)- July 2011 onwards.
Received best poster award in Research Scholars day-2012 held at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Life member of Society for polymer Science From 2012.

PROJECT EXPERIENCES
Presently, working on successfully blending two specialty elastomers Chlorinated polyethylene (CPE) and Ethylene methacrylate copolymer (EMA) to develop mechanically and thermally improved material (IIT Kharagpur).
Synthesis and characterization of Poly(e-caprolactone), modification of different clay based nanofillers like, halloysite nanotubes, sepiolite nano needles, nanoclay, etc for application in improving mechanical and thermal properties (IIT Kharagpur).
Development of various nanocomposites of CPE/EMA blend by chemically surface modifying the nanofillers by covalent technique under the guidance Prof. Tapan K. Chaki and Prof. Dipak Khastgir at IIT Kharagpur. 
Synthesis of thermoplastic polyurethane (PU) from Neem oil and its biological application (CIPET Bhubaneswar).

Research Interests:
Designing various polymer blends and its compounding based on its area of interest.
Formulation of different component products in product development purpose.
Chemical modification of different types of nanofillers, which is an important criteria in improvising numerous technical properties of nanocomposites.
Critical analysis of different test results of product development in research field and understanding the root cause of various properties.
Biopolymers and its applicability study in diversified field

Publications (International)
Purabi Bhagabati, Tapan Kumar Chaki and Dipak Khastgir; “Panoptically exfoliated morphology of chlorinated polyethylene (CPE)/ethylene methacrylate copolymer (EMA)/layered silicate nanocomposites by novel in situ covalent modification using poly (e-caprolactone)” RSC Advances, (Impact Factor: 3.84) (RSC publication), 2015, 5 (48), 38209-38222. 
Purabi Bhagabati, Tapan Kumar Chaki* and Dipak Khastgir, “Chlorinated polyethylene (CPE)/ethylene methacrylate copolymer (EMA)/Sepiolite nanocomposite via a facile one-step covalent modification technique” RSC Advances (RSC publication), (Impact Factor: 3.84), 2015, 5, 60294-60306.
Purabi Bhagabati, Tapan Kumar Chaki* and Dipak Khastgir; “One step in-situ modification of Halloysite nanotubes: Augmentation in polymer-filler interface adhesion in nanocomposites”, Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research (ACS publication), (Impact Factor: 2.58), 2015, 54 (26), 6698–6712. 
Purabi Bhagabati and T. K. Chaki, "Compatibility study of chlorinated polyethylene/ethylene methacrylate copolymer blends using thermal, mechanical, and chemical analysis." Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Impact Factor: 1.6), 131, (11), 2014.
M.Selvakumar, Arunjunairaj Mahendran, Purabi Bhagabati and S.Anandhan, “Thermodynamic Miscibility, Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide)/Poly(vinyl chloride) Blends” Advances in Polymer Technology, (Impact Factor: 1.09 )  34, (1), 2014. 
P Senthil Kumar, M Selvakumar, Purabi Bhagabati, B Bharathi, S Karuthapandian, S Balakumar, “CdO/ZnO nanohybrids: facile synthesis and morphologically enhanced photocatalytic performance” RSC Advances, (Impact Factor: 3.84), 2015, 4 (62) 32977-32986.

Reviewer:
Peer review journals “Journal of applied polymer Science” and “Advances in polymer Technology”.

Conferences Attended:
Advancements in polymeric material (APM-2010), CIPET Bhubaneswar (International conference).
Advancements in polymeric material Chennai (APM-2011), CIPET Chennai (International conference).
International conference on Rubber and rubberlike material (ICRRM-2013), IIT Kharagpur.

Technical Skills
Universal Tensile Testing Machine (Instron), Rheological study by Monsanto Oscillating Disc Rheometer(100S) and Rubber Process Analyzer ( RPA 2000), differential scanning calorimetry study and handling by NETZSCH DSC 200 F3 Maia, Thermogravimetric Analyser Q50 (TA Instruments, USA), Mooney Viscometer, X-Ray Diffractometer (Philips PW-1710 X-ray), Din Abrader, Goodrich Heat Build Up Machine, Izod Impact Testing Machine (FIE), FT-IR Spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer), MFI Measuring Equipment (Devenport), Rame-Harte Contact Angle Meter, (DSC) Q 100 V8.1, TA Instruments, USA, (DMA) 2890, TA Instruments (USA), Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), High resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM), Atomic force microscope (AFM).
Mixing and compounding of rubbers and plastics in Brabender plasticorder PL 2000, Haake Rheomix OS 600 Internal Mixer (Germany), and in Two roll mill.
Operating System - Windows 95/98/2000/2007/XP, VISTA.





Future Goals

To strive for a challenging position in a progressive organization using my skills and work towards my professional growth along with the growth of the organization.

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