• Gender: Male
• Age: 37
• Designation: Fresh/Entry Level
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 8.4 Year(s)

Education

M.Sc.(Tech) Polymer Science & Technology From National Institute of Technology Calicut, in 2012 with 8.7 CGPA (Gold medalist)

B.Sc. Polymer From Chemistry University of Calicut in 2009 with 86.5%

H.S.C. Board of Higher Secondary Education in 
2006 with 86.3%

S.S.C. From Board of Higher Secondary Education in 2006 with 86.3%

Skill Sets

Successfully undertaken various team projects within both academic and non-academic environments.
Experience in organizing and assisting Dr. Kinsuk Naskar during the conference ICRRM-2013 held in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Experience in the following work areas:
Polymer blends and thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) for cable insulation applications
Thermoplastic elastomers and their crosslinking techniques
Characterization and reverse engineering of materials
Polymer nanocomposites and fillers
Hand on experience with several instruments including, dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Rubber process analyzer (RPA), Capillary rheometer, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Universal testing machine (UTM) etc.

Work Experience

Fresh/Entry Level

Projects 
Physico-mechanical Studies of Synthesized Meso-porous Silicate Based Polybutadiene Rubber Hybrid Composites - Reliance Industries, Vadodara (2012) - Dr. Madhuchhanda Maiti

Preparation and characterization of Hybrid Nano-materials for water purification” - NIT Calicut (2011)- Dr. N. Sandhyarani

Preparation and Application of Ampiphilic Heterogeneous Cu-Catalyst for Aqueous Based Coupling Reactions - IACS, Kolkata (2010) - Prof. Arun K. Nandi

Conferences/ Seminars 
Paper presented in the International elastomer conference- ACS 2015, USA
Paper got accepted for second Asia Pacific Rubber Conference- APRC-2015, Thailand.
Participated in the International Conference entitled “Functional Polymers” organized by the Department of Chemistry, NIT Calicut, Kerala

Publications
R. Padmanabhan, K. Naskar, G. B. Nando (2016) Effect of electron beam irradiation on the structure-property relationship of ethylene octene copolymer (EOC) and polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) rubber blends, Rubber chemistry and technology, ACS publications. (Accepted for publication).

R. Padmanabhan, K. Naskar, G. B. Nando (2015) Investigation into the Structure- Property Relationship and Technical properties of TPEs and TPVs derived from Ethylene Octene Copolymer (EOC) and Polydimethyl Siloxane (PDMS) Rubber blends, Materials research express, IOP publications. (Accepted for publication).

R. Padmanabhan, K. Naskar, G. B. Nando (2015) Radiation crosslinked blends based on Ethylene Octene Copolymer (EOC) and Polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) rubber with special reference to the Optimization of Processing Parameters, RSC Advances, RSC. (Accepted for publication).

S. Kumar, S. Chattopadhyay, R. Padmanabhan, A. Sreejesh, Sujith Nair ,G. Unnikrishnan, G. B. Nando (2015) Tailoring permeation characteristics of bromobutyl rubber with polyepichlorohydrin and graphene nanoplatelets, Materials research express, IOP publications. (Accepted for publication)

S. Kumar, S. Chattopadhyay, R. Padmanabhan, A. Sreejesh, Sujith Nair ,G. Unnikrishnan, G. B. Nando (2015) Influence of hybrid nanostructure and its tailoring mechanism on permeability, rheology, conductivity, and adhesion properties of novel rubber blend nanocomposites, RSC Advances, RSC. (Accepted for publication)

R. Padmanabhan, K. Naskar, G. B. Nando (2016) EB - Crosslinked Novel Polymer Blends for Cable Insulation Applications, RSC Advances, RSC. (Under review)

R. Padmanabhan, K. Naskar, G. B. Nando (2016) Influence of Octene-level in EOC-PDMS Thermoplastic vulcanizates for Cable Insulation Applications, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, ACS publications. (Under review)

Future Goals

Growth