Naveen Ajith

- Developed solvent-free dry-coated electrodes using extrusion technique - Investigated adhesion strength of dry-coated cathodes on different kinds of Al current collectors - Hands-on experience in coating, calendering, and mercury intrusion porosimetry - Electrochemical measurements and material characterizations - Project funded by BMBF, ACC, VARTA, and BREYER

- Developed 'Batalyse' - a software for fast, accurate, and reliable evaluation of battery and fuel cell test data - Automated acquisition and documentation of electrochemical test data as a basis for the later use of AI - Evaluated EIS and CV with programming in Origin C - Programmed electrochemical graphs and equations in MATLAB and GNU Octave

- Prepared exercise sheets and question papers for first semester MSc students - Assisted and gave inputs on mathematical problems - Evaluated answer sheets

- Researched the formation and nature of interfaces that form within post-lithium-ion batteries - Designed grippers for Mecademic and Precise automation robots to do testing in CR2032 batteries - Designed PCBs using KiCad and Solid Edge - Analyzed robotic functions in Python

- Human health and social work activities - Research and grassroots innovations in public toilets probing into the social, organizational, and design aspects - Collected user feedback with IOT based real-time monitoring system

- Familiarised with the operations inside Captive Power Plant (CPP) - Did evaluations in Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations

- Simulation and modeling of batteries - Lithium-ion batteries - Post-lithium-ion batteries - Characterization techniques such as SEM, TEM, XRD, AFM, CV, and EIS - Materials science - Electrochemistry

- Non-conventional and renewable energy source - Digital signal processing - Linear integrated circuits - Control systems - Electrical machines - Final semester project titled "Harmonic and Neutral-to-Ground Fault Reduction using Isolation Transformer" - Academic project titled "Metal Detector to detect Landmines and Explosives" - Final grade of 8.21/10 (First Class with Distinction)

- Physics - Chemistry - Maths - Computer science - English