Arjun M

Experience

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  COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  May 2016 - Jul 2016

  Summer Research Intern

  Worked on synthesis of Poly (3-hexylthiophene-co-benzothiadiazole) as an electron-accepting polymer for all-polymer solar cells

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  DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India

  Dec 2016 - Jan 2017

  Project Intern

  Worked on modeling of structural vibration and damping using COMSOL Multiphysics software

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  Indian Institue of Science Education and Research

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Summer Research Intern

  Worked on Theory of Materials Properties using UNIX Shell programing, LCAO Tight binding method for calculating single particle band dispersion

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  Fertilizers & Chemicals Travancore Limited

  Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

  Internship Trainee
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  National Institute of Technology Calicut

  Jul 2018 - May 2019

  Undergraduate Student

  The thesis titled 'Peroxide-assisted extraction of lignin from banana agro-waste' aimed to solve the solid waste problem while producing renewable fuel sources. The team and I used agro-waste produced from banana harvests for our research, resulting in a 6.6% lignin yield from 25g of dry biomass, which accounted for 41.25% of the total lignin content. The project was presented at two international conferences.

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Summer Research Intern

  In this work titled 'Microcrystalline diamond coated heat sink', the focus was to use microcrystalline and nanocrystalline diamond to use as heat sinks in MEMS and NEMS devices.

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  National Institute of Technology Calicut

  Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

  Summer Intern

  In this work titled 'Process Simulation for Optimization of Methanol Synthesis by hydrogenation of CO2', it was put forward that making methanol directly from separate sources of CO2 and H2 has both inherent benefits and drawbacks, but overall, it is a more advantageous, less energy intensive, and environmentally friendly process than traditional processes using a syn gas derived from fossil fuels.

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati

  Feb 2022 - May 2022

  Junior Research Fellow

  In this work, we aimed at developing an optimization formulation based on Kullback - Leibler (KL) divergenceto determine the optimal sensor network for the purpose of linear steady state data reconciliation.