Kamalaksha Nag

Biography

Kamalaksha Nag received his BSc (Hons) (1961) and MSc (1963) degrees in Chemistry from Calcutta University. Following a brief stint as Lecturer in Maulana Azad College, Kolkata, he carried out research (1964-68) in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata with Prof NK Dutt and obtained his PhD degree from Calcutta University. He then served as Scientific Officer in the Radiochemistry Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (1968-71), where he worked on the molten salt breeder reactor project involving measurment of solubilities of Ce(III) and Pu(III) flourides in the molten eutectic mixture of the fluorides of Li, Be and Th. He was a Visiting Research Associate in the in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Colrado at Boulder(1980-1981) and worked with Prof. S Geller on Cu(I)-based solid electrolytes to discover a solid electrolyte that exhibits highest room temperature ionic conductivity among all known solid electrolytes. He was Indo-French Visiting Scientist at the University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg(1985-1986), where he worked on modeling of cytochrome-c oxidase. He was Max- Planck Society Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mulheim (2000).

Research Interest

Inorganic Chemistry