Research Interest

• Design and developments of novel task specific ILs (TSILs) or deep eutectic solvents (DESs) for acidic gas absorption (CO₂/SO₂)

• Utilize task-specific ILs (TSILs) for variety of applications such as biomass processing for the recovery of value added product

• Development of acidic or basic ionic liquids for increase dissolution performance of various biopolymers

• Preparation and characterization of ionogels for soft electronic devices

• Preparation and characterization of composite/nanocomposite material and ionogels for battery application

• Design functional polymeric binder for silicon anode battery

Publications

1. Tushar J. Trivedi, Ji Hoon Lee, Hyeon Jeong Lee, You Kyeong Jeong and Jang Wook Choi, A Family of Deep Eutectic Solvents for High Gravimetric CO2 Capture; Chemistry of Material, 2016,18, 2834-2842

2. Pankaj Bharmoria, Krishnaiah Damarla, Tushar J. Trivedi, Naved I. Malek, Arvind Kumar, Reciprocal Binary Mixture of Protic/Aprotic Ionic Liquids as Deep Eutectic Solvent: Physicochemical Behaviour and Application towards Agarose Processing; RSC Advance, 2015,5, 99245-99252 ,

3. Jignesh Shukla, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar* Effect of Flocculating Agents on Solubility Behavior of Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate (Gypsum) in Aqueous Sodium Chloride System and Physicochemical Solution Properties at 35 oC; J. Chem. Eng.Data, 2015, Submitted.

4. Tushar J. Trivedi, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjya, Jong-Sung Yu and Arvind Kumar, Functionalized agarose self-healing ionogels suitable for supercapacitor application; ChemSusChem, 2015, Accepted 10.1002/cssc.201500648.

5. Pankaj Bharmoria, Tushar J. Trivedi, Ashok Pabbathi, Anunay Samanta and Arvind Kumar, Ionic liquid-induced all-α to α + β conformational transition in cytochrome c with improved peroxidase activity in aqueous medium; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17,10189-10199.

6. Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Efficient extraction of agarose from red algae using ionic liquids; Green and sustainable chemistry, 2014, 4, 190-201.

7. K. Srinivasa rao, Praveensingh Gehlot, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind kumar, Self-assembly of AOT derived ionic liquid surfactants in aqueous medium; J. Colloid and interface science, 2014, 428, 267−275.

8. Tushar J. Trivedi, Jignesh Shukla and Arvind Kumar, Effect of Nitrate Salts on Solubility Behavior of Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate (Gypsum) in the Aqueous Sodium Chloride System and Physicochemical Solution Properties at 35oC; J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2014, 59, 832−838.

9. Pankaj Bharmoria, K. Srinivasrao, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Biamphiphilic Ionic Liquid Induced Folding Alterations in the Structure of Bovine Serum Albumin in Aqueous Medium; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 115-124.

10. Tushar J. Trivedi, K srinivasa rao and Arvind Kumar, Facile preparation of agarose-chitosan hybrid materials and nanocomposite ionogels using an ionic liquid via dissolution, regeneration and sol-gel transition; Green Chem., 2014, 16(1), 320–330.

11. Tushar J. Trivedi, Pratixa Pandya and Arvind Kumar, Effect of organic additive on solubility behaviour and morphology of calcium sulfate dehydrate in aqueous sodium chloride system and physicochemical solution property at 35 oC; J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2013, 58, 773–779.

12. Tushar J. Trivedi, D. N. Srivastava, Robin D. Rogers and Arvind Kumar, Agarose processing in protic and mixed protic-aprotic ionic liquids:dissolution, regeneration and high conductivity high strength ion-gel; Green Chem., 2012, 14, 2831–2839.

13. K Srinivasa Rao, Tushar J. Trivedi, Arvind Kumar, Aqueous-Biamphiphilic ionic liquid systems: self-assembly and synthesis of gold nanocrystals/microplates; J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 14363–14374.

14. Tejwant Singh, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Ionic liquid assisted preparation of ZnO particles; Nano materials and energy, 2012, 1, 207–215.

15. Tushar J. Trivedi, Pankaj Bharmoria, Tejwant Sing and Arvind Kumar, Temperature dependence of physical properties of amino acid ionic liquid surfactants; J. Chem. Eng.Data, 2012, 57, 317–323.

16. K. Srinivasa Rao, Tejawant Singh, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Aggregation behavior of amino acid ionic liquid surfactants in aqueous media; J. Phys. Chem. B., 2011, 115, 13847–13853.

17. Tushar J. Trivedi, K. Srinivasa Rao, Tejwant Singh, Subir Mandal, Narottam Sutradhar, Asit Baran Panda and Arvind Kumar, Task specific,biodegradable amino acid Ionic liquid surfactants; ChemSusChem, 2011, 4, 604–608. (Highlight in Nature India and The Hindu)

18. Tejwant Singh, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Dissolution, regeneration and ion-gel formation of agarose in room temperature ionic liquids; Green Chem., 2010, 12, 1029–1035.

19. Harsh Kumar, Meenu Singla, Akanksha Khosla, Tejwant Singh, Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Volumetric and surface properties of aqueous mixtures of polyethers at T = (298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K;J. Chem. Engg. Data, 2011, 56, 2669–2676.

Book / Books chapters

1. Tushar J. Trivedi and Arvind Kumar, Utilization of Ionic Liquids for the Processing of Biopolymers, Biomass and Biofuels: Advanced Bio-refineries for Sustainable Production and Distribution Tayor and Francis, 2015, Chapter 7, 127-154. ISBN: 978-1-466-59531-6.

2. K. Srinivasa Rao, Pankaj Bharmoria, Tushar J. Trivedi, and Arvind Kumar, Self-Assembly of Surface Active Ionic Liquid in Aqueous Medium,Ionic Liquid Based Surfactant Scienc: Formulation, Characterization and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2015, Chapter 8, ISBN:978-1-118-83419-0.

Official current Address

Dr.Tushar J. Trivedi

E-mail: tjtrivedi20@gmail.com.