Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Biography

Dr. Srivastava is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at IIT Ropar. He obtained his doctoral degree from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and as a JSPS fellowship recipient at Hokkaido University, Japan. He has published more than 40 research papers and has, to his credit, seven international patents. His doctoral work was adjudged the best thesis for the year 2006 by Catalysis Society of India. His research interests are in the areas of development of nanostructure materials and their applications in catalysis and bio-sensing.

Research Interests

• The design, synthesis and catalytic investigation of functional nanoporous materials and ionic liquids.

Education

• PhD, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.
  
• M.Sc., Gorakhpur University, India, 1998
  
• B.Sc., Gorakhpur University, India, 1996
  

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Panjab, July 2009-Present
  
• Lecturer, NIT, Tiruchirappalli, April 2009-July 2009
  
• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Chemical Process Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan, 2007-09
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Center for Functional nanomaterials, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, 307-701, South Korea, 2005-07
  

1. Synthesis of Dicationic Ionic Liquids and their Application in the preparation of Hierarchical Zeolite Beta.
R. Kore, B. Satpati, and R. Srivastava
Chemistry A-European Journal 17 (2011) 14360-14365.

2. Preparation of Nanocrystalline MFI-Zeolite Having Intracrystalline Mesopores and Its Application in Fine Chemical Synthesis Involving Large Molecules.
Rajendra Srivastava, N. Iwasa, S-I. Fujita, and M. Arai.
Chemistry A-European Journal 14 (2008) 9507-9511.

3. Amphiphilic Organosilane-directed synthesis of crystalline zeolite with tunable mesoporosity.
M.Choi, H.Cho, R. Srivastava, C. Venkatesan, D. Choi, and R. Ryoo
Nature Materials 5 (2006) 718-723.

4. Mesoporous Materials with Zeolite Framework : Remarkable Effect of the Hierarchical Structure for Retardation of Catalyst Deactivation.
Rajendra Srivastava, M.Choi, and R.Ryoo
Chemical Communications (2006) 4489-4491.

5. Fe-Zn double metal cyanide complexes as novel Solid, transesterification catalysts.
R. Srivastava, D. Srinivas, and P. Ratnasamy
Journal of Catalysis 241 (2006) 34-44.

6. CO2 activation and synthesis of cyclic carbonates and alkyl/aryl carbamates over adenine-modified Ti-SBA-15 solid catalysts.
R. Srivastava, D. Srinivas, and P. Ratnasamy
Journal of Catalysis 233 (2005) 1-15.

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