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

• Mechanistic insight into the coke formation tendency during upgradation of crude oil in slurry phase batch reactor using MoS2 and its various oil soluble catalysts
  A. Rawat, S. Dhakla, S. K. Maity and P. Lama*, Fuel 2024, 359, 130433
• Direct slurry-phase hydrocracking of crude oil using trimetallic nanocatalyst
  A. Rawat, S. Dhakla, L. Tyagi, S. K. Maity and P. Lama*, Fuel 2022, 330, 125448
• Significance of an Environmental Gas Cell to Obtain a Fully Dehydrated Form and CO2-Pressurized Structure of a Metal–Organic Framework Using In Situ Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction at 298 K
  P. Lama*, A. Rawat, P. Sikiti and T. K. Pal, Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 939-943
• Accordion and layer-sliding motion to produce anomalous thermal expansion behavior in 2D-coordination polymers
  P. Lama*, A. Hazra and L. J. Barbour*, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 12048-12051
• Visualizing Structural Transformation and Guest Binding in a Flexible Metal–Organic Framework under High Pressure and Room Temperature
  H. Yang, F. Guo, P. Lama, W.-Y. Gao, H. Wu, L. J. Barbour, W. Zhou, J. Zhang, B. Aguila and S. Ma, ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4, 1194-1200
• Reversible Thermosalience of 4-Aminobenzonitrile
  L. O. Alimi, D. P. van Heerden, P. Lama, V. J. Smith and L. J. Barbour*, 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)
  P. Lama and L. J. Barbour*,  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
  Q.-Y. Yang, P. Lama, S. Sen, M. Lusi, K.-J. Chen, W.-Y. Gao, M. Shivanna, T. Pham, N. Hosono, S. Kusaka, J. J. Perry IV, S. Ma, B. Space, L. J. Barbour, S. Kitagawa, and M. J. Zaworotko, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5684-5689
• Giant Hysteretic Sorption of CO2: In situ Crystallographic Visualization of Guest Binding within a Breathing Framework at 298 K
  P. Lama, H. Aggarwal, C. X. Bezuidenhout and L. J. Barbour, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 13271-13275