Dr. Rajendra Srivastava
Room 221,
Department of Chemistry,
S S Bhatnagar Block Phone: +91-1881-232064
Professor
Chemistry
Dr. Rajendra Srivastava is currently working as a Professor, Chemistry Department, IIT Ropar. He joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Ropar, as an Assistant Professor. He then joined the same department as Associate professor in 2015, headed the Department from March 2015 to May 2018. He acquired his Ph.D. degree from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, where his doctoral work won him the Best Thesis Award of 2006, conferred by the Catalysis Society of India. Afterward, he worked as a Postdoctoral research fellow in KAIST, South Korea (2005−2007) and as a JSPS fellow in the Hokkaido University, Japan (2007−2009). He received the NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2017, The Catalysis Society of India Young Scientist Award 2018 and a Midcareer Faculty Research and Innovation Award 2019 by IIT Ropar. Recently, his name appeared at 5th rank (in India) and 242 ranks (world) under Physical Chemistry discipline, by the Stanford University study list of top 2% Scientists of the world. He was also featured as one of the highly cited authors from IIT Ropar, by Elsevier 2021. His fields of interest include the design and synthesis of nanostructured functional materials for catalytic applications, including photocatalysis and electrocatalysis. He has published >155 peer-reviewed articles and has been granted nine patents.
Research
Design of nanoporous materials and ionic liquids for their application in sustainable chemical synthesis, energy, environment, water purification, and clinical diagnostics. The work of the group is concentrated on the synthesis and characterization of high surface area materials with controlled porosity with an application focused in heterogeneous catalysis and electro catalysis.
Ph.D., National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
M.Sc., University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, 1998
B.Sc., University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, 1996
1. Arjun Behera, Ashish Kumar Kar, and Rajendra Srivastava*, Challenges and Prospects in the Selective Photoreduction of CO2 to C1 and C2 Products with Nanostructured Materials: A Review, Materials Horizons, 2022 , https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MH01490K
2. Abhinav Kumar, Subhajyoti Samanta, and Rajendra Srivastava, Graphitic Carbon Nitride Modified with Zr-Thiamine Complex for Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Insertion to Epoxide: Comparison with Traditional Thermal Catalysis, ACS Applied Nano Materials 2021, 4, 6805-6820. (Featured as the Cover Page of the Journal)
3. Atal Shivhare, Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava* , Metal Phosphate Catalysts to Upgrade Lignocellulose Biomass into Value-Added Chemicals and Bio-Fuels, Green Chemistry , 3818-3841, 23, 2021. (Impact Factor-10.2)
4. Atal Shivhare, Deshetti Jampaiah, Suresh K. Bhargava, Adam F. Lee,* Rajendra Srivastava,* and Karen Wilson*, Hydrogenolysis of Lignin-Derived Aromatic Ethers over Heterogeneous Catalysts, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 3379-3407, 9, 2021.
5. Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*, Pd Decorated Magnetic Spinels for Selective Catalytic Reduction of Furfural: Interplay of Framework Substituted Transition Metal and Solvent in Selective Reduction, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 9928-9939, 3, 2020
6. Ashish Kumar Kar, Surinder Pal Kaur, T. J. Dhilip Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*, Efficient hydrogenolysis of aryl ethers over Ce-MOF supported Pd NPs under mild conditions: Mechanistic insight using density functional theoretical calculations, Catalysis Science and Technology 2020, 10, 6892-6901
7. Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava* , Bi-Functional Magnesium Silicate Catalyzed Glucose and Furfural Transformations to Renewable Chemicals, ChemCatChem, 2020, 12, 4807-4816. (Featured as a Cover Page of the Journal)
8. Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava*, Zirconium Phosphate Catalyzed Transformations of Biomass Derived Furfural to Renewable Chemicals, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2020,8, 9497-9506.
9. Subhajyoti Samanta, Rajkumar Yadav, Abhinav Kumar, Anil Kumar Sinha, and Rajendra Srivastava* , Surface modified C, O co-doped polymeric g-C3N4 as an efficient photocatalyst for visible light assisted CO2reduction and H2O2production,Applied Catalysis B: Environmental,2019, 259, 118054 (1-10)
10. Aniruddha Mukherji, Rajaram Bal, Rajendra Srivastava* , Understanding the Co:Mo Compositional Modulation and Fe-Interplay in Multicomponent Sulfide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions, ChemElectroChem 2020, 7, 2740-2751 (Featured as the Cover Page of the Journal).
11. Ashish Kumar Kar and Rajendra Srivastava* , Solvent-Dependent, Formic Acid-Mediated, Selective Reduction and Reductive N-Formylation of N-Heterocyclic Arenes with Sustainable Cobalt-Embedded N-Doped Porous Carbon Catalyst , ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ,2019, 7, 13136-13147.
12. Abhinav Kumar and Rajendra Srivastava* , CePO4, a multi-functional catalyst for carbohydrate biomass conversion: production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, 2,5-diformylfuran, and γ-valerolactone, Sustainable Energy and Fuels , 2019, 3, 2475-2489. (HOT Article-2019)
13 .Aniruddha Mukherji, Lakshi Saikia, Rajendra Srivastava, Few-layer MoS2 wrapped MnCO3 on graphite paper: A hydrothermally grown hybrid negative electrode for electrochemical energy storage, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019, 373, 1233-1246.
14. Poonam Rani and Rajendra Srivastava*, Starch coated silica nanospheres parenting the growth of trimodal porous zeolites for catalysis involving large molecules, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ,2019, 11, 9822-9833. (Featured as the Cover Page of the Journal)
15. Subhajyoti Samanta, Santimoy Khilari, Kousik Bhunia, Debabrata Pradhan, Biswarup Satpati, and Rajendra Srivastava*, Double metal ions exchanged mesoporous zeolite as an efficient electrocatalyst for alkaline water oxidation: Synergy between Ni-Cu and their contents in catalytic activity enhancement, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2018, 122, 10725–10736.
16. Bhaskar Sarmah, Biswarup Satpati, and Rajendra Srivastava*, One-Pot Tandem Conversion of Monosaccharide and Disaccharide to 2,5- Diformylfuran using Ru Nanoparticles Supported H-Beta Catalyst, Catalysis Science & Technology, 2018, 8, 2870-2882.
17. Subhajyoti Samanta, Kousik Bhunia, Debabrata Pradhan, Biswarup Satpati, Rajendra Srivastava*, NiCuCo2O4 supported Ni-Cu ion-exchanged mesoporous zeolite heteronano architecture: An efficient, stable, and economical non-precious electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6, 2023-2036
18. Subhajyoti Samanta, Rajendra Srivastava* , 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, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental , 2017, 218, 621-636.
19. Subhajyoti Samanta, Santimoy Khilari, Debabrata Pradhan, and Rajendra Srivastava* , 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, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ,2017, 5, 2562-2577.
20. Balwinder Kaur, Rajendra Srivastava* and Biswarup Satpati, Highly Efficient CeO2 Decorated Nano-ZSM-5 Catalyst for Electrochemical Oxidation of Methanol, ACS Catalysis , 2016, 6, 2654-2663.
21. Bhaskar Sarmah, Rajendra Srivastava*, Pandian Manjunathan, and Ganapati V. Shanbhag, Green and Sustainable Tandem Catalytic Approach for Fine-Chemicals Synthesis Using Octahedral MnO2Molecular Sieve: Catalytic Activity versus Method of Catalyst Synthesis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering , 2015, 3, 2933–2943.
22. Bhaskar Sarmah and Rajendra Srivastava*, Simple and Economical Synthesis of Alkyl Phenyl Ethers by the Reaction of Phenols and Alkyl Esters Using Nanocrystalline Beta , ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2015, 3, 210-215.
23. Rajkumar Kore, Rajendra Srivastava*, Biswarup Satpati, ZSM-5 zeolite nanosheets with remarkably improved catalytic activity synthesized using a new class of structure directing agents, Chemistry-A European Journal , 2014, 36, 11511-11521.
24. Rajkumar Kore, Rajendra Srivastava* and Biswarup Satpati, Highly efficient nanocrystalline zirconosilicate catalysts for the aminolysis, alcoholysis, and hydroamination reactions, ACS Catalysis , 2013, 12, 2891-2904.
25. M.U. Anu Prathap and Rajendra Srivastava* , Synthesis of NiCo2O4 and its application in the electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol, Nano Energy , 2013, 2, 1046-1053.
List of Publications /Patents
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, November 2021-Present.
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, December 2015-November 2021.
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, July 2009-December 2015.
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.
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