Dr. Rajiv Prakash is Professor
in the School of Materials Science and Technology. He
received M. Tech. degree in Materials Science and
Technology in 1995 and Ph.D. degree in the year
2000. He was Scientist in CSIR lab Lucknow for more than 7
years before joining the School. He worked as visiting
Scientist in Physical Chemistry Division, Johannes
Gutenburg-Universität Mainz, Germany under CSIR-DAAD
program in the year 2003-04. He has been recipients of
Young Scientist (UPCST), Young Engineers (INAE) Awards of
India and recently Materials Research Society, India Medal
Award (2011). His current research interests include
morphology control synthesis of organic conducting
polymers, nanocomposites, fabrication and characterization
of micro- and nano- organic electronic devices and
sensors/biosensors.
Research Interests
1) Conducting
Polymers and Composites
2)Organic
Electronics and Devices
3) Sensors and Biosensors
4) Electroanalytical
Techniques and Electrocatalytic Applications
Indian Patents Granted/Applied:
(1) Novel Polythiophene Copolymers for Light Emitting Diode
Applications.
Rajiv Prakash, Vibha Rani, K.S.V.
Santhanam, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai
and N. Somanathan, K.S.V. Srinivaban, S. Ramasami, CLRI, Chennai.
Joint Patent (TIFR, Mumbai and CSIR)
Patent No. 215455, Grant date- March 21, 2008
(2) An Improved Ion-Selective Electrode Useful for Sensing
Potassium Ion Fluids.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow and P.C.
Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR)
Patent No. 215512 Grant date Feb 27, 2008.
(3) A Device Useful for Sensing Copper (II) Ion in Fluids.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow and P.C.
Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR) Patent
No. 221601 Grant date Aug 01, 2008.
(4) A Process for the Preparation of a Solid-State Metal based pH
Electrode.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow and P.C.
Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR) Patent
No. 218340 Grant date May 30, 2008.
(5) A Process for the Preparation of a Solid-State Bio-Sensor for
Urea.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow and P.C.
Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR) Patent
No. 215383 Grant date March 14, 2008.
(6) A Device for the Quantitative Estimation of Creatinine.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow and P.C.
Pandey, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR) Patent No
223621 Grant date Oct 17, 2008.
(7) A novel device for the quantification of arsenic in water and
a process thereof.
Rajiv Prakash, R.C. Srivastava, P.K.
Seth; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow.
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi and CSIR) Patent
Application no. 774/DEL/2000.
(8) A Novel Device for the Quantification of Lead and Copper alone
or Simultaneously in Aqueous/Non-Aqueous & Biological Samples.
Rajiv Prakash, R. C. Srivastava, and P.
K. Seth; ITRC, Lucknow.
Patent No. 217509 Grant date April 11,
2008.
(9) A novel immunochemical method based on polystyrene
microspheres for detection of organic pollutants.
Rajiv Prakash, Iris Sound, Ursula
Pfeifer-Fukumura and Wolfram Baumann, filled for Joint Patent
(Mainz University and CSIR) Application: IN 2004-DE48 20040112.
Priority: .CAN 147:290980 CODEN: INXXBQ
IN 2004DE00048
(10) A Novel Device for the Quantification of Mercury in Aqueous/
Non-Aqueous & Biological Samples and a Process Thereof.
Rajiv Prakash, SMST, IT, BHU
and Rakhi Agrawal, Jai Raj Behari, ITRC, Lucknow
Joint Patent (BHU, Varanasi
and CSIR) Patent Application no. 0052 NF2006
(11) Chemical synthesis process for formation of polycarbazole
conducting polymer, derivatives and composites with controlled
morphology.
Rajiv Prakash and Bhavana
Gupta, IT, BHU, Varanasi. Patent Appl. No. 1289/DEL/2010
(13) Asteraceae and Papavereae plants extracts as efficient
corrosion inhibitors.
Rajiv Prakash. Patent Appl.
No. 2914/DEL/2010
(14) Chemical synthesis process for formation of polyindole
conducting polymer, derivatives and composites with controlled
morphology.
Rajiv Prakash and Leela
Joshi, IT, BHU, Varanasi. Patent Appl. No. 2914/DEL/2010.
(15) A process for preparation of a homogeneous polymer blends
particularly blends of polycarbonate (PC) and poly(methyl
methacrylate) (PMMA)
Rajiv Prakash, Akhilesh K
Singh and Dhananjai Pandey, IT, BHU, Varanasi.
Patent Appl. No. 141/DEL/2011
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERRED:
Technology on “Arsenic Analyser”
(Pat. Appl. No. 774/DEL/2000) transferred to ELICO Ltd., B-90,
A.P.I.E., Hyderabad, India.
Selective
Publications:
1.Synthesis
of Nano Ground Nutshell-like Polyindole by Supramolecular
Assembled Salts of ss-DNA Assisted Chloroauric Acid
Ashish
Kumar and Rajiv Prakash
Chemical
Physics Letters,
511
(2011) 77–81.
2.One-Pot
Synthesis of Polyindole-Au Nanocomposite and its Nanoscale
Electrical Properties
Leela
Joshi
and Rajiv Prakash,
Materials
Letters,
65
(2011)
3016–3019.
3.Methanol
Derived Large Scale Chemical Synthesis of Brightly Fluorescent
Graphene
Vyom
Parashar, Kaushal Kumar, Rajiv Prakash, Shiv K Pandey, Avinash C Pandey, Journal
of Materials Chemistry, J. Mater. Chem., 21 (2011) 6506-6509.
4.Novel Synthesis of Polycarbazole–Gold Nanocomposite
Macromolecular
Chemistry and Physics, (In
press, 2011) DOI: 10.1002/macp.201100262
5.Electronic
Properties and Photoresponse of Polycarbazole-Multiwalled
Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposite/Aluminum Schottky Diode
Arun Kumar Singh, P. Chakrabarti and Rajiv Prakash
IEEE
Electron Device Letters, In
press (2011) EDL-2010-12-2185.R1.
6.Electronic
and
Optical Properties of Electrochemically Polymerized
Polycarbazole/ Aluminum Schottky Diodes.
Arun
Kumar Singh, A.D.D.Dwivedi, P. Chakrabarti and Rajiv Prakash,
J. Applied Physics,105 (2009)
114506.
7.Nano
Structured Nickel Oxide based DNA Biosensor for Detection of
Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-azar)
Swati
Mohan, Pankaj
Srivastava, S. N. Maheshwari, Shyam Sundar, Rajiv Prakash, Analyst, 2011 (in press) DOI:10.1039/C1AN15031F
8.
A label-free genosensor for BRCA1 related sequence based on
impedance spectroscopy.
Mohan, Preeti Nigam, Subir Kundu, Rajiv Prakash,
Analyst,135(2010) 2887-2893.
9.Novel
Conducting Polymer Functionalized with Metal-Cyclam Complex
and its Sensor Application: Development of Azidothymidine Drug
Sensor.
Swati
Mohan
and Rajiv Prakash,
Talanta,
81
(2010)
449–454.
10.Interfacial
Polymerization of Carbazole: Morphology Controlled Synthesis
Bhavana
Gupta and Rajiv Prakash,
Synthetic Metals,160
(2010)
523–528.
11.Reactive
Compatibilization
of Polycarbonate (PC) and Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) in
the Presence of a Novel Transesterification Catalyst SnCl2.2H2O.
Ahilesh Kumar Singh, Rajiv
Prakash, Dhananjai Pandey, Journal of Physical
Chemistry B, (In press, 2011) DOI:
10.1021/jp107897a
12.Synthesis
of
functionalized conducting polymer “polyanthranilic acid” using
various oxidizing agents and formation of composites with PVC
Bhavana
Gupta
and Rajiv Prakash,
Polymers for Advanced
Technologies, 21 (2010) 1-7.
13.Structural,
Thermal,
and Fluorescence Properties of Eu(DBM)3Phenx Complex Doped in
PMMA
A.
Singh,
Sunil Singh, Hirdyesh Mishra, Rajiv Prakash, S. B.
Rai
Physical
Chemistry B, 114 (2010) 13042–13051.
14.A
Facile Methodology for the Design of Functionalized Hollow
Silica Spheres Ambrose
Melvin, R. Vijay, Vijay R Chaudhari, Bhavna Gupta, Rajiv Prakash,
Santosh Haram, Geetha Baskar, Deepa Khushalani,
Journal
of Colloid & Interface Science,
346
(2010) 265-269.
Sponsored Projects:
1.DST
sponsored project on “Development
of
DNA based biosensor and application for detection of Listeria Monocytogenes”,
2010-2012. (PI)
2.DST
sponsored project on “Development of
Azidothymidine (Anti HIV drug) and its Reactive Phase-I Metabolite
Electrochemical Sensor based on Low Cost Screen Printed
Electrodes” (PI)
3.DST sponsored project on “Immobilized rice-peroxidase biosensor
for dopaminedetermination
based on functionalized conducting polymers”, 2010-12)
(Joint PI)
4.JSPS-DST
(Indo-Japan) Project on
“Morphology
Control of Organic Materials forNanobioelectronics
Devices”, 2011-2013. (PI,
India and
Prof. Kaneto, KIT Japan)
5.DRDO Project on “Design
and development of low cost plastic devices for electronic andphotonic applications”,
2011-2013 (Joint
PI)
6.NLC NALCO sponsored
project on
“Electrochemical sensors for heavy metal ions(Zn, Cu, Ni) in Industrial waste water”, 2011-2012. (PI)
7.Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology-Moser Baer India Ltd Projecton “Development of
Optically Active Polymers for Data Storage Applications”1(2)/2007/M&C
dated 23.03.2007 Period: May 2007 to July 2010 (Co-PI) (Completed)
8.CSIR Project on “Development of Lead and Copper Screen
Printed Sensors” Ref. No. 22/0384/05/EMR-II;
Period: Jan. 2006- Dec. 2009.(Completed)
9.IUAC (UGC) project on
“Studies of the Effect of High Energy Irradiation on
Conducting Polymers” Ref. No. UFUP
39327
Period: April. 2006-
March 2009.
(Completed)
10.Indian National Academy of
Engineering, N.Delhi, financial support under Young
EngineersAwards for “Studies of
Conducting Polymers- Metal oxides Nanocomposite” 2006. (Completed) Awards/Honors:
(1) MRSI
Medal (2010)
(2) Young
Engineers Award-2005
of IndianNationalAcademy of
Engineering
(3)
Young Scientist Award-2003 of U.P. Council of
Science and Technology. (under
Department
of Science and Technology)
(4) Visiting Scientist (under DAAD
Scholarship) at JohannesGutenbergUniversity, Mainz,
Germany
(2002-2003) in the group of Prof. W Baumann.
(5) BHU Gold Medal for 1st Rank in M.Tech. Materials
Science and Technology (1996)
(6) Prithvi Nath Bhargawa Medal for 1st Rank in M.Sc. organic
chemistry(1994)
(7)BHU Gold Medal for 1st Rank in M.Sc. Chemistry
(1994)
Member Advisory committee of
TIFAC for India Technology Vision Plan 2035 on Materials and
Processing
Editor:
1.
In Editorial Board of Journal
of Sensor Technology,Scientific Research Publishing, USA
2. In Editorial Board
of Biosensors Journal 3. In Editorial Board of Nano
Trends
4.
Editor and Member of Board of Academic matters and Publication-NST Consortium Journal 5. Editor and Member
of Board of Academic matters and Publication-STM Journal Consortium
6.
Member of Advisory Editorial Board of International Journal of
Research, India
International Collaborations:
1) Prof. Prof. Keiichi Kaneto (DST-JSPS)
LSSE, Kyushu Institute of Technology,
2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, JAPAN
Tel:+81-093-695-6042, Fax:+91-093-695-6012
E-mail:kaneto@life.kyutech.ac.jp
2) Prof. Ursula Pfeifer-Fukumura and Prof. Ursula Diester
(DAAD-Institutional)
Department of Engineering, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
Wiesbaden- Rüsselsheim-Geisenheim, Germany
E-mail: Ursula.Pfeifer-Fukumura@hs-rm.de
