Arvind Modi Email & Phone Number

Hillsboro, Oregon

•Innovated, characterized and optimized a novel, robust and reproducible Direct Immersion Annealing (DIA) process with potential roll-to-roll (R-2-R) integrability on an industrial scale to process block copolymer and other polymer systems. This development will allow micro-phase separation, alignment and generation of long range order in thin block copolymer films on flat and patterned substrates via simple immersion into solvent mixtures thereby overcoming constraints faced during thermal and conventional solvent vapor annealing•Performing Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation study of Block Copolymer Thin Films swollen with solvent using LAMMPS simulator with coarse grain modeling•Fabricated and successfully tested (at Brookhaven National Laboratory) In-situ GISAXS/WAXS setup for nanostructure characterization of thin polymer films immersed in solvent(s)to study block copolymer phase separation and track grain growth•Designed and tested a setup for In-situ Neutron Reflectivity (at NIST) to study kinetics of ordering of lamellar thin block copolymer films immersed in solvent(s)•Surface modification of airplane interior coatings via gradient surface energy modification (UVO exposure) to imitate real leather (in collaboration with Schneller LLC., Kent, Ohio)•Studied and mapped the regimes of molecular weight of Polystyrene (PS) and surface energy of PDMS flexible substrate films where cracking of as-cast PS thin films was suppressed. This study of fundamental importance determined the stability for coatings on flexible substrates•Studying dewetting of neat/filled polymer blends/bilayers films (nanocomposites) for fabrication of novel macro- and nano-structures

Kent, Ohio

• Collaborated with team of researcher for product development and testing of various adhesives on aluminum and flexible substrates for airplane interiors

Kanpur Area, India

Kanpur Area, India

• Studied and mapped the regimes of molecular weight of Polystyrene (PS) and surface energy of PDMS flexible substrate films where cracking of as-cast PS thin films was suppressed. This study of fundamental importance determined the stability for coatings on flexible substrates.

Advisor: Prof. Ashutosh Sharma• Performed non-linear simulations of instabilities in viscous slipping polymer bilayers under the influence of intermolecular and electrical forces to predict system instability behavior.• Studied formation of stabilized patterns through linear simulations of thin viscous polymer films supported on substrate via electric field application.

Mentor: Mr. M. M. BhawayDeveloped a method to improving the atomization of feed fuel in Fluidized Catalytic Cracking(FCC) process for minimization of droplet size for yield enhancement through addition of surfactants

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Polymer/Plastics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Plastics Engineers, Mentored High School Science teacher, high school students and Master.

Bs And Ms, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Service Scheme (NSS), Teaching Assistant (TA): Chemical Engineering Design Course (ChE 453), Fall 2009.

High School