Dr. Riju Davis

Product development, chemical anchor technologies, product formulation, product solutions, coordination of cross-functional technical activities - laboratory tests, product performance test field, production adaption, approval, quality, supply and marketing, presentation of product feature. Recent achievement - active role in launch (Sept17 and April18) of next generation of Hilti capsule chemical anchor HVU2.

Research and development, Industrial adhesives, feasibility studies to application fulfilment, project and laboratory staff management, cross-functional activities, polymer synthesis and formulation, polyurethane hotmelt pressure sensitive adhesives, UV-curable adhesives, epoxy adhesives, aerospace adhesive materials, polyolefin materials, material performance optimisation and testing, pilot plant scale up, patent landscaping, product presentation, customer trials. Scoping India, Innovation forum.

Organic gel systems, two-dimensional gel structures, organic synthesis, product characterization and study of material properties. See Advanced Materials (Wiley VCH) 19, 3878, 2007.

Photo-switchable liquid crystalline systems, photochromic systems, Fluorescence switching. See Organic Letters (ACS) 7, 1461, 2005. Perimidine-based photochromic chemicals on Tokyo Chemical Industry catalogue - product numbers D3618 and D3619.

PhD work at: National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST-CSIR), Trivandrum Organic and photochemistry, organic synthesis, structure characterization, photoswitchable materials, liquid crystals, solid-state fluorescence, imaging materials, molecular-level understanding

Carried out at: School of Chemical Sciences, MGU, Organic Chemistry, Project work carried out at: National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST-CSIR), Trivandrum