Srivastava, Neelam

Prof Neelam Srivastava did her Graduation and post-graduation from Gorakhpur University and PhD from Banaras Hindu University. Dr. Neelam Srivastava (Professor of Physics, BHU, Varanasi) has been working in the field of solid state ionics since 1989, with special emphasis on polymer electrolytes synthesis and characterization. Her group is presently dedicated to synthesize economical, environment friendly, high and fast ion conducting polymer-in-salt polymer electrolyte membranes for all-solid-state flexible electrochemical devices. The group is presently exploring starches from different botanical origins to achieve the target and optimize the starch-salt combination and its composition for commercial application. A special synthesis protocol developed by the group resulted in low cost, easy to synthesize, free standing transparent flexible electrolyte membrane, and is being successfully tested for fabrication of electrochemical devices such as all-solid-state-flexible-supercapacitor, microbial fuel cell etc. The group has already submitted three patents (one granted and other two under examination). Besides the material synthesis and characterization her group is also involved in understanding the ion transport mechanism in polymer electrolytes. The group has developed a methodology for impedance data analysis under conductivity formalism to extract the information regarding the applicability of different format of conductivity power law equations. She has delivered talks in many international and national conferences/ workshop/ refresher courses etc. and organized national and international conferences in the field of material sciences and energy devices.