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Dr. Rajendra Srivastava

Academics

  1. Ph.D., National Chemical Laboratory, Pune.

  2. M.Sc., University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur.

  3. B.Sc., University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur.

Professional Experiences

  1. Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, November 2021-Present

  2. Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, December 2015-November 2021

  3. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, July 2009-December 2015

  4. Lecturer, NIT, Tiruchirappalli, April 2009-July 2009

  5. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hokkaido University, Japan, 2007-2009

  6. Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2005-07

Awards and Recognition

  1. Admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2023.

  2. Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society, 2021.

  3. Recipient of Faculty Research and Innovation Award for the Year 2019 (Mid-carrier award) by IIT Ropar.

  4. Recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2018 by the Catalysis Society of India.

  5. Recipient of NASI SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2017.

  6. Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 2007.

  7. Recipient of the Best Thesis award for the year 2006 by the Catalysis Society of India.

  8. Featured among the top 200 leading Chemistry Scientists of India.

  9. Featured as the highest cited author in Chemistry from IIT Ropar: Published by Elsevier, August 2021. For more details please visit

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Research

Design and synthesis of nanoporous catalysts such as zeolites, metal oxides, metal-organic framework, carbon nitride, metal phosphates, etc., for their applications in sustainable chemical and fuel synthesis. The work of the group is concentrated on the synthesis and characterization of high surface area materials with controlled porosity with applications focused on heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis. The catalysts are being developed for the renewable synthesis of chemicals and fuels from biomass and plastic waste. The catalytic processes are also aimed at synthesizing pharmaceutically important synthetic intermediates. Catalysts are also developed for utilization of CO2 to chemicals and fuels. Overall, the research contributes to the development of new heterogeneous catalytic materials for sustainable catalytic processes for chemicals and fuel production.

Citation and Publications

  • Citation = 11791, h-index= 57, i10-index = 180 dated 14th April 2025 (Google Scholar)

  • Citation = 10350, h-index= 53, dated 14th April 2025 (Scopus) (ID: 7401869299)

  • Publications = 204 (As on 14th April 2025)

  • Granted Patents = 9 (USA 6, European 1, Indian 2)

Selected Publications

 

[1] Design of a bifunctional catalyst by alloying Ni with Ru-supported H-beta for selective hydrodeoxygenation of bisphenol A and polycarbonate plastic waste

Arjun K. Manal, Ganapati V. Shanbhag, and Rajendra Srivastava*

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023, 338, 123021

[2] Unveiling and understanding the remarkable enhancement in the catalytic activity by the defect creation in UIO-66 during the catalytic transfer hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin with isopropanol

Ashish Kumar Kar, Ranjini Sarkar, Arjun K. Manal, Ravi Kumar, Sudip Chakraborty , Rajeev Ahuja, and Rajendra Srivastava*

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2023, 325, 122385 (1-10)

[3] Metal-free N-doped carbon catalyst derived from chitosan for aqueous formic acid-mediated selective reductive formylation of quinoline and nitroarenes
Arzoo Chauhan, Arghya Banerjee, Ashish Kumar Kar, and Rajendra Srivastava*
ChemSusChem, 2022, 15, e202201560 (1 of 12) (Featured as a cover page of the journal)
[4] Challenges and prospects in the selective photoreduction of CO2 to C1 and C2 products with nanostructured materials: a review
Arjun Behera, Ashish Kumar Kar, and Rajendra Srivastava*

Materials Horizons, 2021, 9, 607-639
[5] Graphitic Carbon Nitride Modified with Zr-Thiamine Complex for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Insertion to Epoxide: Comparison with Traditional Thermal Catalysis

Abhinav Kumar, Subhajyoti Samanta and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Applied Nanomaterials 2021, 4, 6805-6820 (Featured as a cover page of the journal)

[6] Metal Phosphate Catalysts to Upgrade Lignocellulose Biomass into Value-Added Chemicals and Bio-Fuels

Atal Shivhare, Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*

Green Chemistry 2021, 23, 3818-3841

[7] Efficient hydrogenolysis of aryl ethers over Ce-MOF supported Pd NPs under mild conditions: Mechanistic insight using density functional theoretical calculations
Ashish Kumar Kar, Surinder Pal Kaur, T. J. Dhilip Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*

Catalysis Science and Technology2020,, 6892-6901

[8] Bi-Functional Magnesium Silicate Catalyzed Glucose and Furfural Transformations to Renewable Chemicals
Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*

ChemCatChem2020,, 4807-4816 (Featured as a cover page of the journal)

[9] Zirconium Phosphate Catalyzed Transformations of Biomass Derived Furfural to Renewable Chemicals

Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2020,8, 9497-9506

[10] Surface modified C, O co-doped polymeric g-C3N4 as an efficient photocatalyst for visible light assisted CO2 reduction and H2O2 production

Subhajyoti Samanta, Rajkumar Yadav, Abhinav Kumar, Anil Kumar Sinha, and Rajendra Srivastava*

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2020,81, 2019, 259, 118054 (1-16)
[11] Understanding the Co:Mo Compositional Modulation and Fe-Interplay in Multicomponent Sulfide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Aniruddha Mukherji, Rajaram Bal and Rajendra Srivastava*

ChemElectroChem 2020,81, 7, 2740-2751 (Featured as a cover page of the journal)

[12] Solvent-Dependent, Formic Acid-Mediated, Selective Reduction and Reductive N-Formylation of N-Heterocyclic Arenes with Sustainable Cobalt-Embedded N-Doped Porous Carbon Catalyst

Ashish Kumar kar and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019,8 1, 7, 13136-13147
[13] Starch coated silica nanospheres parenting the growth of trimodal porous zeolites for catalysis involving large molecules

Poonam Rani and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2019,81, 7, 9822-9833 (Featured as a cover page of the journal)

[14] NiCuCo2O4 supported Ni-Cu ion-exchanged mesoporous zeolite heteronano architecture: An efficient, stable, and economical non-precious electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation.

Subhajyoti Samanta, Kousik Bhunia, Debabrata Pradhan, Biswarup Satpati and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2018,6, 2023-2036
[15] Thermal catalysis vs. photocatalysis: A case study with FeVO4/g-C3N4 nanocomposites for the efficient activation of aromatic and benzylic C-H bonds to oxygenated products

Subhajyoti Samanta and Rajendra Srivastava*

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 2017,218, 621-636
[16] An efficient, visible light driven, selective oxidation of aromatic alcohols and amines with O2 using BiVO4/g-C3N4 nanocomposite: A systematic and comprehensive study toward the development of a photocatalytic process

S. Samanta, S. Khilari, D. Pradhan, and Rajendra Srivastava*

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2017,5, 2562-2577
[17] Highly Efficient CeO2 Decorated Nano-ZSM-5 Catalyst for Electrochemical Oxidation of Methanol

Balwinder Kaur, Rajendra Srivastava* and Biswarup Satpati
ACS Catalysis, 2016, 6, 2654-2663
[18] ZSM-5 zeolite nanosheets with remarkably improved catalytic activity synthesized using a new class of structure directing agents

Rajkumar Kore, Biswarup Satpati, and Rajendra Srivastava*

Chemistry – A European Journal 2014,20, 11511-11521
[19] Synthesis of NiCo2O4 and its application in the electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol

M.U. Anu Prathap and Rajendra Srivastava*

Nano Energy, 2013, 2, 1046-1053
[20] Highly efficient nanocrystalline zirconosilicate catalysts for the aminolysis, alcoholysis, and hydroamination reactions
Rajkumar Kore, Biswarup Satpati and Rajendra Srivastava*
ACS Catalysis 2013,3, 2891-2904