Dr. Anju V P

Faculty Assistant Professor

 

 
Dr. Anju V P

 

Designation:
 Assistant Professor 

Date of joining this college: 
03/01/2022

Permanent Address: 
Poothappilly House, Eloor North, Udyogamondal P O, Ernakulam 

Present Address:
 Poothappilly House, Eloor North, Udyogamondal P O, Ernakulam 

Email 
 anjuvp09@gmail.com, anjuvp@keralavarma.ac.in 

Education details: 
BSc Chemistry, St. Joseph`s college Irijalakuda (2010)
MSc Chemistry, Christ college Irijalakuda (2012)
PhD in chemistry: Cochin University of Science and Technology (2017)
Postdoctoral Research: IIT madras  (2018)

Courses handled: 
 1.  CHE1C01 Quantum Mechanics and Computational Chemistry
2. CHE2C06 Coordination chemistry
CHE3C10 Organometallic &Bioinorganic chemistry
CHE3C11 Reagents and Transformations in Organic Chemistry
CHE4L12 Physical Chemistry Practical IV
CHE4E05 Industrial Catalysis(Elective)
Core Course III: Physical Chemistry-I
•Core Course III: Physical Chemistry-I
•Core Course XIII: Elective 2. Polymer Chemistry

Positions held: 
 1 ASAP Coordinator

Research Interest: 
Design of multi-responsive smart materials
_ Creation of Bio-mimetic structures
_ Self healing of polymers
 Polymer nanocomposites
_ Polymer synthesis
_ Size and shape controlled synthesis of nanomaterials
_ Synthesis and application of metallobaranes

Awards, Achievements with year:

_ Senior Research Fellowship (SRF-CSIR), CSIR-UGC, India (July 2016-2017)
_ Junior Research Fellowship (JRF-CSIR), CSIR-UGC, India (July 2014-2016)
_ Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), India 2012
 Suvarna Jubilee Award in M.Sc. Chemistry during the year 2010-2012
Research Students: 
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Research Papers: 
1. V.P. Anju, Raghunandan Pratoori,Deepak Kumar Gupta,Rajendra Joshi, Ratna Kumar Annabattula, and Pijush Ghosh Controlled Shape Morphing of Solvent Free Thermoresponsive Soft Actuators, Soft matter, (2020) 16, 4162-4172
2.V.P. Anju, and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, High Dielectric Constant Polymer Nanocomposite for Embedded Capacitor Applications, Material science and Engineering B, 249(2019)114418
3.V.P. Anju, M.Manoj,Pezholil Mohanan and Sunil K. Narayanankutty,A comparative study on electromagnetic interference shielding effectiveness of carbon nanofiber and nanofibrillated cellulose composites, Synthetic Metals, 247 (2019) 285-297
4.V.P. Anju, P.R. Jithesh and Sunil K. Narayanankutty,Novel Humidity and Ammonia Sensor Based on Nanofibers/Polyaniline/Polyvinyl alcohol composite, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 285 (2019) 35-44
5. V.P. Anju and Sunil K. Narayanankutty,Dopant Variation as a Probe into the Antimicrobial activity of Polyaniline/Carbon nanofiber/Poly(methylmethacrylate) Composite,ChemistrySelect (2018)3,11200-11209
6.V.P. Anju and Sunil K. Narayanankutty,Effect of dopant on the properties of polyaniline/carbon nanofiber composites, Polymer Bulletin ,(2018) 1-15
7.V.P. Anju and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, Impact of Bis-(3-triethoxysilylpropyl)tetrasulphide on the properties of PMMA/Cellulose composite, Polymer, 119 (2017) 224-237
8.  V.P. Anju and Sunil K. Narayanankutty,Polyaniline coated cellulose fiber / polyvinyl alcohol composites with high dielectric permittivity and low percolation threshold, AIP Advances, 6, (2016) 015109
9. V.P. Anju,Subrat Kumar Barik, Bijnaneswar Mondal, V. Ramkumar, and Sundargopal Ghosh, Metallaboranes from Metal Carbonyl Compounds and Their Utilization as Catalysts for Alkyne Cyclotrimerization, ChemPlusChem(2014), 79, 546 551
10.K. Yuvaraj, D. K. Roy, V. P. Anju, B. Mondal, B. Varghese and Sundargopal Ghosh,Mixed-Metal Chalcogenide Tetrahedral Clusters with an Exo-polyhedral Metal Fragment, Dalton Trans. (2014), 43, 17184
11.K. Yuvaraj, D. K. Roy, B. Mondal, V. P. Anju,, P. Shankhari, V. Ramkumar and Sundargopal Ghosh, Chemistry of Homo and Heterometallic Bridged-Borylene Complexes Organometallics (2013), 32, 2705
12. Kiran Kumarvarma Chakrahari, Arunabha Thakur, V. P. Anju and Sundargopal Ghosh, B-H bond iodination of polyhedral dimolybdaborane and dimolybdathiaborane clusters,Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2013) 1-5
13. V.P. Anju,SDipak Kumar Roy, R.S. Anju and Sundargopal Ghosh, Transition-metal variation as a probe into the catalytic activity of metallaboranes,Journal of Organometallic Chemistry , 733, 79-81
14.V.P. Anju, Chapter 16 Nanocellulose based polymer composites for EMI shielding, Nanocellulose based composites for electronics, Elsevier Publisher, ISBN 9780128223505, 7th October 2020

Research Grants

Presentations in conferences:
•Amit kumar,V.P. Anju , Nitish R. Mahapatra and Pijush Ghosh, Impact of Tuning Solvent Characteristics on Self-folding of Biopolymer Thin Film, Active Polymeric Materials and Microsystems (APMM-2019), Dresden, Germany, September 16-19, 2019
•V.P. Anju,and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, Humidity and Ammonia Sensor Based on Nanofibers/Polyaniline/Polyvinyl alcohol,Emerging Trends in Nanocomposites, KSCS, October, 2017, Kerala, India (Second prize)
• V.P. Anju,and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of PVA/PANI/Cellulose fiber Conductive Composites,4th ISCA, December, 2014, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
• V.P. Anju,and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of PVA/PANI/Cellulose fiber Conductive Composites,December, 2014, KKTM College, Kerala, India
• V.P. Anju,and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, Synthesis and conductivity studies of Poly vinyl alcohol/Poly Aniline/Cellulose Fiber, SSC, November, 2016, Kerala, India
• V.P. Anju,and Sunil K. Narayanankutty, A Highly Active Catalyst for the Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes to Substituted Benzenes,NDCS, 7-9 December, 2012, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
• V.P. Anju,and Sundargopal Ghosh, A Highly Active Catalyst for the Cyclotrimerization of Alkynes to Substituted Benzenes, CCC, 8-10 February, 2013, CLRI, Chennai, India
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