Dr Padma L Patnam

Research Interest

• Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistry
• Surface functionalization
• Polymer Composite materials
• Eco-friendly Polymer materials
• Utilization of CO 2 to produce valuable chemicals

Work Experience

Patents

• Metal salts of amino acids, their preparation and uses for co-polymerization of epoxides with carbon dioxide
  P L Patnam , P Kumar, S L Jain and S S Ray
  Indian Patent 201611037018
• Covalently bound chicken feather grafted enzymes, preparation thereof and application as biocatalyst
  S Kumar, P L Patnam and S L Jain
  Indian Patent 201611042735
• A process for the aqueous polymerisation using bio free radical catalytic system.
  P P Latha , A Bansal, I Shekhar, U Kumar, S L Jain, S S Ray and A K Chatterjee
  Indian Patent 938DEL2014
• An Improved Process for the production of N-methyl-2- Pyrrolidone (NMP)
  P P Latha, P K Khatri, U Kumar, I K Ghosh, S L Jain, A K Chatterjee and B Sain
• An Improved Process for the production of gamma – Butyrolactone
  P P Latha, P K Khatri, S L Jain, A K Chatterjee and B Sain
  Indian Patent 0248Del2013

Selected Publications

• Self-driven graft polymerization of vinyl monomers on poultry chicken feathers in the absence of initiator/ catalyst
  P L Patnam, S S Ray, A K Chatterjee and S L Jain
  J. App. Pol. Sci. 2017, 44645, 1-9
• Magnetically separable chicken feathers: a biopolymer based heterogeneous catalyst for the oxidation of organic substrates
  P L Patnam, M Bhatt, R Singh, S Saran and S L Jain
  RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 60888- 60895
• Poultry chicken feather derived biodegradable multifunctional additives for lubricating formulations
  P P Latha, R K Singh, A Kukrety, R C Saxena, M Bhatt and S L Jain
  ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 999−1005
• Sustainable catalysis using magnetic chicken feathers decorated with Pd(0) for Suzuki- cross coupling reaction
  P P Latha, M Bhatt, S L Jain
  Tetrahedron Lett. 56, 2015, 5718–5722
• two in one approach: renewable support and enhanced catalysis for sweetening using chicken feather bound cobalt(II) phthalocyanine under alkali free environment
  D K Chauhan, P L Patnam , S K Ganguly and S L Jain
  RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 51983-51988
• Expanded Corn Starch as a versatile material in atom transfer radical polymersiation (ATRP) of styrene & methyl methacrylate.
  A Bansal, A Kumar, P P Latha, S S Ray and A K Chatterjee
  Carbohydrate Polymers 2015, 130, 290–298
• Selenium-doped TiO 2 as an efficient photocatalyst for the oxidation of tetra-hydrofuran toγ-butyrolactone using hydrogen peroxide as oxidant
  P P latha, P K. Khatri and S L. Jain
  Synlett 2013, 24, A-E.