Experimental condensed matter physics Research interests:

1. Synthesis of larger sized graphene and its optical, structural and Electrical/electronic characterization
2. Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes
3. Functionalization of carbon nanotubes their applications
4. f-CNTs based chemical and biosensors
5. Bio-mimetic and Physical/chemical synthesis of Nanomaterials and its applications
6. Synthesis and formation of monolithic free standing CNT-bulk structures and their innovative applications in bio- and chemical filtration, analyte concentration and electrochemical reactions
7. CNT-polymer composites, their mechanical and electrical properties and related applications
8. Low Weight Hydrogen storage materials Carbon based super Capacitor & Batteries

• Max Planck -India fellowship (in the research group of Prof. Klaus Von Klitzing) sponsored by Max Planck Society, Germany & DST, New Delhi
• BOYSCAST fellowship sponsored by DST, New Delhi
• DST award for Meeting of Nobel Laureates & students in Lindau, Germany-2005
• Visiting Research Fellow to MRC, RPI, Troy, New York (USA)-2006
• YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD, 7th World Congress on Biometrics, Artificial Muscles and nano Bio (2013-South Korea)
• Vice Chancellors Award for Excellence in Research (BHU 2014)

1. Successfully completed UGC sponsor project as a PI entitled "Synthesis and Application of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Bulk like Configurations" during 01/05/06 to 30/04/09 of amount Rs. 3, 33, 600.
2. Successfully completed DST sponsor project (SR/S5/NM-08/2003) as a Co-PI entitled "Nano Science and Technology : A Transdisciplinary approach." during 2004- 2009.

List of 10 major Publications:

1. Carbon Nanotube Filters Anchal Srivastava, O N Srivastava, S Talapatra, R Vajtai and P M Ajayan Nature Materials 3, 2004, 610-614.
2. Atomic layers of hybridized boron nitride and graphene domains L. Ci, L. Song, C. H. Jin, D. Jariwala, D. X. Wu, Y. J. Li, A. Srivastava, Z. F. Wang, K. Storr, L. Balicas, F. Liu and P. M. Ajayan Nature Materials, 9, 430-435 (2010)
3. Novel liquid precursor based facile synthesis of large-area continuous, single and few layer graphene films Anchal Srivastava, Charudatta Galande, Lijie Ci, Li Song, Chaitra Rai, Deep Jariwala, Kevin F. Kelly, Pulickel M. Ajayan Chemistry of materials 2010 (ACS Journal) - (2010, DOI: 10.1021/cm101027c)
4. Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotube-polyethylene oxide composites Kalpana Awasthi, Seema Awasthi, Anchal Srivastava, R Kamalakaran, S Talapatra, P M Ajayan, O N Srivastava Nanotechnology 17 (2006) 5417-5422
5. MWCNTs as reinforcing agent to the Hap-Gel nano-composite for artificial bone grafting Santosh Kr.Yadav, Tanmay Bera, Preeti S.Saxena, Ashok K.Maurya, Rajendra S.Garbyal, Robert Vajtai, P. Ramachandrarao, Anchal Srivastava Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (2009; DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.3258)
6. Effect of external electric field on the growth on nantoubules Anchal Srivastava, A.K. Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Appl. Phys. Lett. 72(14), 1998, 1685-1687.
7. Characterisation of carbonaceous materials using Raman spectroscopy: a comparison of carbon nanotube filters, single- and multi-walled nanotubes, graphitised porous carbon and graphite H. M. Heise, R. Kuckuk, A. K. Ojha, A. Srivastava, V. Srivastava, B. P. Asthana J. Raman Spectrosc. (2008) DOI 10.1002/jrs.2120
8. Curious aligned growth of carbon nanotubes under applied electric field Anchal Srivastava, A.K. Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Carbon 39, 2001, 201-206.
9. Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube (Review) Kalpana Awasthi, Anchal Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava J. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, 2005, 1616-1636.
10. Improved Thermal Stability and Electrochemical Behavior of CNTs/Polyaniline Nanocomposite Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Anchal Srivastava, Rajiv Prakash, V. N. Singh, B. R. Mehta Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Vol. 9, 1-7, 2009

1. Dipyrrin complex assisted in situ synthesis of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles decorated on a partially reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for efficient catalytic reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III), Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Vinod Kumar, Anchal Srivastava and Daya Shankar Pandey, RSC Advances, 6, 40911- 40915, (2016).
2. Synthesis, Characterization, and Tribological Evaluation of TiO2 Reinforced Boron and Nitrogen co-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Based Hybrid Nanomaterials as Efficient Antiwear Lubricant Additives, Vinay Jaiswal, Kalyani, Sima Umrao, Rashmi B. Rastogi, Rajesh Kumar, and Anchal Srivastava, Applied material and interfaces, 8, 11698-11710, (2016)
3. Two dimensional graphene derivatives supported isolated gold nanoparticles as an efficient SERS substrate, Shiju Abrahama, Matthias K�nig Shobhit Pandey, Sunil K. Srivastava, Bernd Walkenfort, Anchal Srivastava, Asian Journal of Physics, 25, 2, 121 - 126, (2016)
4. High-performance and high-sensitivity applications of graphene transistors with self-assembled monolayers, Chao-Hui Yeh , Vinod Kumar , David Ricardo Moyano , Shao-Hsuan Wen , Vyom Parashar , She-Hsin Hsiao , Anchal Srivastava , Preeti S. Saxena , Kun-Ping Huang, Chien-Chung Chang, Po-Wen Chiu, Biosensor and bioelectronics, 77, 1008-1015, (2016)
5. Microwave bottom-up route for size-tunable and switchable photoluminescent graphene quantum dots using acetylacetone: New platform for enzyme-free detection of hydrogen peroxide, Sima Umrao, Min-Ho Jang, Jung-Hwan Oh, Guntae Kim, Sumanta Sahoo, Yong-Hoon Cho, Anchal Srivastava, IL-Kwon OH, Carbon, 81, 514 - 524 (2015)
6. Different shades of cholesterol: Gold nanoparticles supported on MoS2 nanoribbons for enhanced colorimetric sensing of free cholesterol, Narsingh R. Nirala, Shobhit Pandey, Anushka Bansal, Vijay K. Singh, Bratindranath Mukherjee , Preeti S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava, Biosensors and bioelectronics,74, 207-213, (2015)
7. Enhanced electrochemical biosensing efficiency of silica particles supported on partially reduced graphene oxide for sensitive detection of cholesterol, Shiju Abraham, Saurabh Srivastava, Vinod Kumar, Shobhit Pandey, Pankaj Kumar Rastogi, Narsingh R. Nirala, Sunayana Kashyap , Sunil K. Srivastava, Vidya Nand Singh, Vellaichamy Ganesan, Preeti S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry,757, 65-72, (2015)
8. Partially reduced graphene oxide�gold nanorods composite based bioelectrode of improved sensing performance, Narsingh R. Nirala, Shiju Abraham, Vinod Kumar, Shobhit A. Pandey, Umakant Yadav, Monika Srivastava, S.K. Srivastava, Vidya Nand Singh, Arvind M. Kayastha, Anchal Srivastava, Preeti S. Saxena, Talanta,144, 745-754, (2015)
9. Urease Immobilized Fluorescent Gold Nanoparticles for Urea Sensing, Upendra Kumar Parashar, Narsingh R. Nirala, Chandan Upadhyay, P. S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava, Appl Biochem Biotechnol, 176, 480-492, (2015)
10. Multi-layered graphene quantum dots derived photodegradation mechanism of methylene blue, Sima Umrao, Poornima Sharma, Anushka Bansal, Ranjna Sinha, Ranjan K. Singh and Anchal Srivastava, RSC Advances, 5, 51790-51798, (2015)
11. Protein conjugated carboxylated gold@reduced graphene oxide for aflatoxin B1 detection, Saurabh Srivastava, Shiju Abraham, Chandan Singh, Md. Azahar Ali, Anchal Srivastava, Gajjala Sumanaa and Bansi D. Malhotra, RSC Advances, 5, 5406-5414, (2015)
12. Functional graphene�gold nanoparticle hybrid system for enhanced electrochemical biosensing of free cholesterol, Shiju Abraham, Narsingh R. Nirala, Shobhit Pandey, Monika Srivastava, Sunil Srivastava Bernd Walkenfort and Anchal Srivastava, Analytical Methods, 7, 3993-4002, (2015)
13. Graphene-wrapped and cobalt oxide-intercalated hybrid for extremely durable super-capacitor with ultrahigh energy and power densities, Rajesh Kumar, Hyun-Jun Kim, Sungjin Park, Anchal Srivastava, Il-Kwon Oh,, Carbon, 79, 192-202, 2014
14. Synthesis of benzimidazole-grafted graphene oxide/multi-walled carbon nanotubes composite for supercapacitance application, Rajesh Kr. Srivastava a, Wang Xingjue , Vinod Kumar, Anchal Srivastava , Vidya Nand Singh, Journal of alloys and compounds, 612, 343-348 2014
15. Graphene Oxide-Based Biosensor for Food Toxin Detection, Saurabh Srivastava, Md Azahar Ali, Sima Umrao, Upendra Kumar Parashar, Anchal Srivastava, Gajjala Sumana, B. D. Malhotra, Shyam Sudhir Pandey, Shuji Hayase, Appl Biochem Bitechnol, 174,: 960-970, 2014
16. Multifunctional, robust, light-weight, free-standing MWCNT/phenolic composite paper as anodes for lithium ion batteries and EMI shielding material, Satish Teotia, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Indu Elizabeth, Vidya Nand Singh, Raman Ravikumar, Avanish Pratap Singh, S. Gopukumar, S. K. Dhawan, Anchal Srivastavae, R. B. Mathur, RSC Advances, 4, 33168-33174, 2014
17. Mesoporous silica particle embedded functional graphene oxide as an efficient platform for urea biosensing, Shiju Abraham, Valerian Ciobota, Saurabh Srivastava, Sunil K. Srivastava, Rajesh K. Singh, Jan Dellith, B. D. Malhotra, Michael Schmitt, Jurgen Popp �, Anchal Srivastava, Analytical methods, Volume & Issue: 6, Pages: 6711-6720, 2014
18. Nano for Biomimetics and Biomaterials, Il-Kwon Oh, Anchal Srivastava, In-Kyu Park, and Michael Z. Hu, Journal of Nanomaterials, 2014, 1, 2014
19. A possible mechanism for the emergence of an additional band gap due to a Ti�O�C bond in the TiO2�graphene hybrid system for enhanced photodegradation of methylene blue under visible light, Sima Umrao, Shiju Abraham, Frank Theil, Shobhit Pandey, Valerian Ciobota, P. K. Shukla, Caroline J. Rupp, Sudip Chakraborty, Rajeev Ahuja, Jurgen Popp, � Benjamin Dietzek, Anchal Srivastava, RSC Advances, 4, 59890-59901, 2014
20. Reduced graphene oxide�titania based platform for label-free biosensorPratima R. Solanki, Saurabh Srivastava, Md. Azahar Ali, Rajesh Kr. Srivastava, Anchal Srivastava, B.D. Malhotra, RSCAdvances, 4, 60386-60396, (2014)
21. Facile, rapid and upscaled synthesis of green luminescent functional graphene quantum dots for bioimaging, Vinod Kumar, Vimal Singh, Sima Umrao, Vyom Parashar, Shiju Abraham, Anand K. Singh, Gopal Nath, Preeti S. Saxena and Anchal Srivastava, RSC Advances, 4, 21101-21107, (2014)
22. Nanostructured palladium-reduced graphene oxide platform for high sensitive, label free detection of a cancer biomarker, Vinod Kumar, Saurabh Srivastava, Sima Umrao, Ram Kumar, Gopal Nath, Gajjala Sumana, Preeti S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava, RSC Advances, 4, 2267-2273, (2014)
23. Carboxylated multiwalled carbon nanotubes based biosensor for aflatoxin detection, Chandan Singha, Saurabh Srivastavaa, Md. Azahar Ali, Tejendra K. Gupta, Gajjala Sumana, Anchal Srivastava, R.B. Mathur, Bansi D. Malhotraa, Sensors and actuators B: Chemical, 185, 258-264, 2013
24. Biofunctional magnetic nanotube probe for recognition and separation of specific bacteria from a mixed culture, Vinod Kumar, Gopal Nath, Ravinder. K. Kotnala, Preeti S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava, RSC Advances, 3, 14634-14641, 2013
25. Defects in bilayer silica and graphene: common trends in diverse hexagonal two-dimensional systems, Torbjo�rn Bjo�rkman, Simon Kurasch, Ossi Lehtinen, Jani Kotakoski, Oleg V. Yazyev, Anchal Srivastava, Viera Skakalova, Jurgen H. Smet, Ute Kaiser & Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Scientific Reports, 3:3482, 1-7, 2013
26. Mediator-free microfluidics biosensor based on titania� zirconia nanocomposite for urea detection, Saurabh Srivastava, Md. Azahar Ali, Pratima R. Solanki, Pandurang M. Chavhan, Manoj K. Pandey, Ashok Mulchandani, Anchal Srivastava and Bansi D. Malhotra, RSC Advances, 3, 228-235, 2013
27. Electrophoretically deposited reduced graphene oxide platform for food toxin detection, Saurabh Srivastava, Vinod Kumar, Md Azahar Ali, Pratima R. Solanki, Anchal Srivastava, Gajjala Sumana, Preeti Suman Saxena, Amish G. Joshid and B. D. Malhotra, Nanoscale, 3, 3043-3051, 2013
28. Direct Imaging of a Two-Dimensional Silica Glass on Graphene, Pinshane Y. Huang, Simon Kurasch, Anchal Srivastava, Viera Skakalova, Jani Kotakoski, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Robert Hovden, Qingyun Mao, Jannik C. Meyer, Jurgen Smet, David A. Muller, and Ute Kaiser, NANO LETTERS 12, 1081-1086, 2012
29. Functionalized Multilayered Graphene Platform for Urea Sensor, Rajesh K. Srivastava, Saurabh Srivastava, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Bansi D. Mahlotra, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Anchal Srivastava, ACS Nano, 6,168-175, 2012 DOI: 10.1021/nn203210s
30. New insights into the density of states of graphene oxide using capacitive photocurrent spectroscopy, Tanesh Bansal, Aditya D. Mohite, Hemant M. Shah, Charudatta Galande, Anchal Srivastava, Jacek B. Jasinski, Pulickel M. Ajayan, B.W. Alphenaar, CARBON 50, March 2012, 808-814
31. Ni filled flexible multi-walled carbon nanotube�polystyrene composite films as efficient microwave absorbers, Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, T. N. Narayanan, A. P. Reena Mary, M. R. Anantharaman, Anchal Srivastava, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 113116, DOI: 10.1063/1.3638462, 2011
32. Single step synthesis of graphene nanoribbons by catalyst particle size dependent cutting of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Upendra Kumar Parashar , Suraj Bhandari , Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Deep Jariwala, Anchal Srivastava, Nanoscale, (2011), 3, 3876-3882 DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10483G
33. A self assembled monolayer based microfluidic sensor for urea detection, Saurabh srivastava, Pratima R. Solanki, Ajeet kaushik, Md. Azahar Ali, Anchal Srivastava, B.D Malhotra , Nanoscale 2011,3, 2971-2977 DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10240K
34. Variations of electronic transport in graphene of different origins , Viera Sk�kalov�, Dong Su Lee,Thomas Beringer, Alan B. Kaiser, Anchal Srivastava, Hye Jin Park, Siegmar Roth , Phys. Status Solidi C,8, No. 11�12, 3191-3194 (2011) / DOI 10.1002/pssc.20110018
35. Ultrathin Planar Graphene Supercapacitors , Jung Joon Yoo, Kaushik Balakrishnan, Jingsong Huang, Vincent Meunier, Bobby G. Sumpter, Anchal Srivastava, Michelle Conway, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Jin Yu, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan , Nano Lett., (2011) 11, 1423-1427.
36. Study of mechanism of enhanced antibacterial activity by green synthesis of silver nanoparticles , Upendra Kumar Parashar, Vinod Kumar, Tanmay Bera, Preeti S Saxena, Gopal Nath, Sunil K Srivastava, Rajiv Giri , Anchal Srivastava, Nanotechnology 2011, 22, 415104
37. Characterisation of carbon nanotube filters and other Carbonaceous materials by Raman spectroscopy II. Study on dispersion and disorder parameters, H.M. Heise, R. Kuckuk, Anchal Srivastava and B.P. Asthana, J. Raman Spectroscopy 43, 294-302, 2011
38. The strain sensing and thermal-mechanical behavior of flexible multi-walled carbon nanotube/polystyrene composite films, R.K. Srivastava, V.S.M. Vemuru, Y. Zeng, R. Vajtai, S. Nagarajaiah, P.M. Ajayan, A. Srivastava , CARBON 49 (2011) 3928-3936.
39. Quasi-Molecular Fluorescence from Graphene Oxide, Charudatta Galande, Aditya D. Mohite , Anton V. Naumov, Wei Gao, Lijie Ci, Anakha Ajayan, Hui Gao, Anchal Srivastava, R. Bruce Weisman, Pulickel M. Ajayan , Scientific Reports ( By Nature publishing group) 1, Article number:85 September 2011 DOI: 10.1038/srep00085
40. Novel liquid precursor based facile synthesis of large�area continuous, single and few layer graphene films Anchal Srivastava, Charudatta Galande, Lijie Ci, Li Song, Chaitra Rai, Deep Jariwala, Kevin F. Kelly, Pulickel M. Ajayan Chemistry of materials 2010 (ACS Journal) � (2010, DOI: 10.1021/cm101027c)
41. Atomic layers of hybridized boron nitride and graphene domains L. Ci, L. Song, C. H. Jin, D. Jariwala, D. X. Wu, Y. J. Li, A. Srivastava, Z. F. Wang, K. Storr, L. Balicas, F. Liu and P. M. Ajayan Nature Materials, 9 430�435 (2010)
42. MWCNTs as reinforcing agent to the Hap�Gel nano�composite for artificial bone grafting Santosh Kr.Yadav, Tanmay Bera, Preeti S.Saxena, Ashok K.Maurya, Rajendra S.Garbyal, Robert Vajtai, P. Ramachandrarao, Anchal Srivastava Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (2009; DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.3258)
43. Refinement of the optical properties by controlling the morphology of silver nanoparticles employing blended reducing agents U. Kumar Parashar, V. Kumar, P. S. Saxena, A. Srivastava Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 11, 4, 2009, p.441
44. Improved Thermal Stability and Electrochemical Behavior of CNTs/Polyaniline Nanocomposite Rajesh Kumar Srivastava, Anchal Srivastava, Rajiv Prakash, V. N. Singh, B. R. Mehta Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Vol. 9 (2009) 1-7.
45. Bioinspired Synthesis of Silver nanoparticles Upendra Kumar Parashar, Preeti S. Saxena, Anchal Srivastava Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures Vol. 4, No.1, March 2009, p. 159-166
46. Improvement in hydrogen storage capacity in LaNi5 through substitution of Ni by Fe Sunil Kumar Pandey, Anchal Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy 32, 13, 2007, 2461-2465
47. Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotube-polyethylene oxide composites Kalpana Awasthi, Seema Awasthi, Anchal Srivastava, R Kamalakaran, S Talapatra, P M Ajayan, O N Srivastava Nanotechnology 17 (2006) 5417-5422
48. Tubes of Carbon nanotubes Upendra K Parashar, Rajesh K Srivastava, Santosh K Yadav, Anchal Srivastava Proc. DAE-BRNS Int. Symp. Materials Chemistry (ISMC-06), 2006, 433-436.
49. Synthesis, characterization and application of some nanomaterials (TiO2 and SiC nanostructured films, organized CNT structures, ZnO structures and CNT-blood platelet clusters) O N Srivastava, Anchal Srivastava, D Dash, D P Singh, R M Yadav, P R Mishra, Jai Singh Parmana 65(4), 2005, 581-592.
50. Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube (Review) Kalpana Awasthi, Anchal Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava J. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, 2005, 1616-1636.
51. Nucleation and Growth of Catalyst-Free ZnO Nanostructures Jai Singh, Anchal Srivastava, R. S. Tiwari, O. N. Srivastava J. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Vol.5, No.12, 2005, 2093-2098.
52. Investigations on hydrogen storage behavior of CNT doped NaAlH4 D. Pukazhselvan, Bipin Kumar Gupta, Anchal Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Journal Alloys & Compounds Vol. 403, 2005, 312-317.
53. Effect of ferrocene concentration on the synthesis of bamboo shaped carbon-nitrogen nanotubes bundles using Acetonitrile-Ferrocene solution Ram Manohar Yadav, T Shripathi, Anchal Srivastava, O N Srivastava J. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, No. 5, 2005, 820-824
54. Carbon Nanotube Filters Anchal Srivastava, O N Srivastava, S Talapatra, R Vajtai and P M Ajayan Nature Materials 3, 2004, 610-614.
55. Synthesis of bamboo-shaped carbon-nitrogen nanotubes using acetonitrile- ferrocene precursor Ram Manohar Yadav, Anchal Srivastava, O.N.Srivastava J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 4, No. 7, 2004, 719-921
56. Curious aligned growth of carbon nanotubes under applied electric field Anchal Srivastava, A.K. Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Carbon 39, 2001, 201-206.
57. Effect of external electric field on the growth on nantoubules Anchal Srivastava, A.K. Srivastava, O.N. Srivastava Appl. Phys. Lett. 72(14), 1998, 1685-1687.