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Prof. Praveen Kumar Bommineni

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Chemical Engineering

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Room No: 316 +91-870-2462649 praveen@nitw.ac.in Bio Sketch

    Key Notes

    • Journal(s): 9
    • PhD: Current - 1

    9

    PUBLICATIONS

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    DOCTORAL STUDENT

    2

    PROJECTS

    Research Areas

    Molecular Simulations, Self-assembly, Crystallization
    EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
    Degree Institute Year
    Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 2018
    Master of Technology National Institute of Technology Warangal 2010
    Bachelor of Technology JNTU Hyderabad 2007
    COURSES HANDLED
    Course L-T-P Credit Degree Level
    Process Engineering Economics(CH401) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Chemical Technology(CH256) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Chemical Process Calculations(CH201) 3-0-0 3 UG
    Data Analytics(CH5252) 3-0-0 3 UG, PG
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    PUBLICATIONS
    Journal(s)
    Breakdown of Magic Numbers in Spherical Confinement, By Wang et al, ACS, ACS nano, vol.19, pp.11702, 2025
    Formation of hexagonal binary crystals in additive hard disk mixtures, By Appala Naidu Rayavarapu, Navid Panchi, Michael Engel, Praveen K. Bommineni, AIP, The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol.163, pp.154503, 2025
    Entropic Trapping of Hard Spheres in Spherical Confinement, By Praveen K. Bommineni, Junwei Wang, Nicolas Vogel and Michael Engel, APS, Physical Review Letters, vol.134, pp.198201, 2025
    Early-Stage Bifurcation of Crystallization in a Sphere, By CF Mbah, J Wang, S Englisch, Praveen Bommineni, NR Varela-Rosales, ESpiecker, N Vogel, M Engel, Springer Nature, Nature Communications, vol.14, pp.5299, 2023
    Calculation of interfacial free energy for binary hard sphere mixtures, By Praveen Kumar Bommineni, Sudeep Punnathanam, Springer, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy , vol.88, pp.802-810, 2022
    Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids, By Praveen K Bommineni, Marco Klement, Michael Engel , APS, Physical Review Letters, vol.124, pp.218003, 2020
    Complex Crystals from Size-Disperse Spheres, By Praveen K Bommineni, Nydia Roxana Varela-Rosales, Marco Klement, Michael Engel , APS, Physical Review Letters, vol.122, pp.128005, 2019
    Molecular simulation of homogeneous crystal nucleation of AB2 solid phase from a binary hard sphere mixture, By Praveen Bommineni, Sudeep N Punnathanam, AIP, The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol.147, pp.064504, 2017
    Enhancement of nucleation of protein crystals on nano-wrinkled surfaces , By Praveen Bommineni, Sudeep N Punnathanam, Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Discussiobs, vol.186, pp.187-197, 2016
    PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
    Molecular simulations of 2-dimensional colloids
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Type: Research
    Sponsor: National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)
    Project Cost (INR): 4486000
    Date of Commencement: 01-06-2025  
    Duration: 24 Months
    Status: Ongoing
    Colloidal Crystallization in Confinement
    Role: Visiting Scientist
    Type: Research
    Sponsor: SFB 1411
    Project Cost (INR): 1100000
    Date of Commencement: 01-06-2024   Date of Completion: 01-12-2024
    Duration: 6 Months
    Status: Completed
    RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
    Current PhD Students
    Appala Naidu Rayavarapu
    Area of Research: Crystallization and Self-Assembly Studies of Hard Particles
    CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
    ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
    •  Coordinator for Placements and Internships, CCPD (Continuing from July, 2025)
    •  Member, DAC-PG (Continuing from July, 2025)
    •  Faculty Advisor (Continuing from July, 2025)
    •  Faculty In-charge, Design and Simulation lab (Continuing from January, 2023)
    •  Coordinator UG Projects (January, 2021 - July, 2024)
    •  IV B.Tech Faculty Advisor (August, 2020 - July, 2024)
     Last updated on November 27, 2025