Dr Prem Lama

Research Interest

• Design and development of stable nano-materials (metal oxides, porous materials for selective catalysis)
• Slurry phase hydro-cracking of petroleum coal tar and vacuum residue
• Residue conversion by delayed coking process
• Synthesis and crystal structure determination of organic and organic-inorganic hybrid porous materials
• Characterizing multi-functional porous materials which can selectively adsorb a particular guest molecule
• Synthesis and characterization of pressure dependent dynamic materials
• Thermal expansion behavior of flexible compounds
• Synthesis and characterizing magnetic coordination polymers
• Synthesis and characterization of photo-active materials and modulation of their magnetic and porous properties by employing [2+2] cyclo-addition reaction
• Enantio-selective separation through homo-chiral porous coordination polymers (PCPs)

Work Experience

Awards and Honors

• DST-INSPIRE faculty award 2018
• VICE-RECTOR postdoctoral award, Stellenbosch University 2018
• CCDC best poster for young scientist at 29^th European Crystallographic meeting 2015
• Best tutor for 1^st semester in CHM101A (Basic Inorganic) course at IIT Kanpur 2011 – 2012
• Senior Research Fellow (SRF), CSIR, India 2009 – 2012
• Junior Research Fellow (JRF), CSIR, India 2007 – 2009
• Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship in Chemical Sciences, (shortlisted) 2007
• Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Chemistry 2006
• Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry 2006

Patents

Selected Publications

• Accordion and layer-sliding motion to produce anomalous thermal expansion behavior in 2D-coordination polymers
  Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 12048-12051
• Visualizing Structural Transformation and Guest Binding in a Flexible Metal–Organic Framework under High Pressure and Room Temperature
  ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 1194-1200
• Reversible Thermosalience of 4-Aminobenzonitrile
  Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 6208-6211
• Distinctive Three-Step Hysteretic Sorption of Ethane with In Situ Crystallographic Visualization of the Pore Forms in a Soft Porous Crystal (Accepted as ACS Editors’ Choice Article with Cover Page)J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 2145-2150
• Reversible switching between highly porous and non-porous phases of an interpenetrated diamondoid coordination network that exhibits gate-opening at methane storage pressures
  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5684-5689