Prasad S. Raut

About Prasad S. Raut

A highly motivated and result oriented Material Scientist/Polymer Engineer with:• Customer facing experience in Thermal interface products and adhesives for electronics applications• Skilled in product development, characterization, and failure analysis of polymeric materials with a focus on structure-property-processing-performance relationship and material interfaces• Proven skills in materials innovation, qualification, and process development for high volume manufacturing plastic product• Expertise in formulation, compounding, molding, and testing of thermoplastic, engineering thermoplastic, conductive polymers, and elastomeric composites• Highly adept in thermal, spectroscopic, mechanical, microscopic, rheological analyses and DOE• Technical leader with experience in technical program management, people management, and cross functional collaboration to drive growth through stakeholder engagement Skills-Critical thinking | Fast pace adaptability | Creative problem solving-Project Management, Six Sigma Black Belt, DFMEA, PFMEA JIRA, SAP

Experience

1. Principal Application Engineer

   Henkel

   Jun 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Lead end-to-end R&D and field integration for high-performance Thermal Interface Materials in the electronics market• Translate complex customer thermal and adhesive requirements into scalable, lab tested product solutions.• Streamline dispensing processes for advanced industrial adhesives and TIM products.• Resolve critical TIM and adhesive challenges across global electronics manufacturing facilities.• Ensure the reliability and performance of new thermal products through rigorous testing and statistical validation.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Chemical Engineering

• The University of Akron

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Polymer Engineering

• Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Chemical Engineering

Skills

• Moving Die Rheometer (Alpha Technologies Mdr 2000)
• Rubber Compounding and Testing
• Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (Bruker Avance Iii 300)
• Transmission Electron Microscope (Tem) Jem 1200xii
• Process Simulation
• Nanomaterials
• Scanning Electron Microscope (Fe-Sem) Model Jeol-7401
• Polymer Nanocomposites
• Chemistry
• Two-Roll Mill and Compression Molder
• Surface Chemistry
• Heat Transfer
• Polymers
• Polarized Light Microscopes - Phase Contrast
• Interfacial Phenomena
• Polymer Physics
• Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (Ch Instrument 600 and Hp4192a Lf)
• Polymer Chemistry
• Dsc
• Polymer Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Materials Science
• Internal Mixer (C.w. Brabender Intelli-Torque Plasti-Corder)
• Mooney Viscometer (Alpha Technologies Mv 2000)
• Wide Angle X-Ray Diffraction (Bruker Axs D8 Discover X-Ray)
• Engineering
• Tga
• Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (Ta Instruments Dma Q800)
• Helium Pycnometry (Micromeritics Accupyc Ii 1340)
• Advanced Polymer Analyzer (Model 2000)
• Process Engineering
• Polymer Characterization
• Polymer Science
• Nanocomposites
• Instron Tensile Tester (Model 5567)
• Spectroscopy
• Bet Surface Area Analyzer(Micromeritics Tristar Ii-3020)
• Nanotechnology