Welcome to the Deshlahra Lab

Recent News

  • November 1, 2021 - Adam Twombly and Prashant gave talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston!

  • November 1, 2021 - We welcome PhD student Greg Novotny to the group!

  • November 1, 2021 - Masters student Qianli Xing joins the Deshlahra Lab. Welcome!

  • September 15, 2021 - We welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yogita Soni to our lab! Dr. Yogita received her PhD form NCL Pune, and will be working on bimetallic catalysts for selective oxidation reactions.

  • September 1, 2021 - We welcome postdoctoral fellow Dr. Peng Yu to our lab! Dr. Yu received his PhD form UMass Lowell. He will be working on single-atom alloy catalysis for alkane activation.

  • June 1, 2021- Undergraduate student Adam Senko received Tufts ChBE summer research scholarship! Congrats!

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Recent Publications

  • R.T. Hannagan, G. Giannakakis, R. Réocreux, J. Schumann, J. Finzel, Y. Wang, A. Michaelides, P. Deshlahra, P. Christopher, M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, M. Stamatakis,* E. C. H. Sykes,* "First-principles design of a single-atom–alloy propane dehydrogenation catalyst," 2021, Science, 372, 1444-1447. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg8389

  • T. A. Balema, Y. Liu, N. A. Wasio, A. M. Larson, D. A. Patel, P. Deshlahra* and E. C. H. Sykes,* "Enantioselective Effects in the Electrical Excitation of Amine Single Molecule Rotors," 2021, J. Phys. Chem. C. 125, 3584–3589. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10767

  • Y. Liu,e A. Twombly,e Y. Dang, A. Mirich, S. L. Suib,* P. Deshlahra,* "Roles of Enhancement of C-H Activation and Diminution of C-O Formation Within M1-Phase Pores in Propane Selective Oxidation," 2021, ChemCatChem 13, 882. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202001642 (Cover Feature: https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202001984)

  • Z. Zha, P. Deshlahra,* "Mechanistic Framework and Effects of High Coverage in Vinyl Acetate Synthesis," 2021, ACS Catal. 11, 3, 1841–1857. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c03673

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Contact Information


Principal Investigator

Prashant Deshlahra

Tufts University

Science and Technology Center

4 Colby Street, Rm 267C, Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617.627.7972