Scientist
BSc | 2004, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, West Bengal |
MSc | 2006, Calcutta University, West Bengal |
PhD | 2012, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
E Mail | prem.lama@iip.res.in |
Telephone No. | +91-135-2525 797 |
Personal Web-page | https://sites.google.com/view/lamaprem1983 |
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
Scientist | CSIR Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (September 2019 – Till Date) |
DST-Inspire Faculty | Goa University, Goa (2018-August 2019) |
Postdoctoral fellow | Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2013, 2016-2017) |
Claude Leon Postdoctoral Fellow | Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2014-2015) |
Awards and Honors
- DST-INSPIRE faculty award 2018
- VICE-RECTOR postdoctoral award, Stellenbosch University 2018
- CCDC best poster for young scientist at 29th European Crystallographic meeting 2015
- Best tutor for 1st 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
- 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
Google Scholar Link / Complete List of Publications
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=YkfRIhwAAAAJ&hl=en