Dr. Praveen Bollini
Associate ProfessorThe Bollini Lab seeks to advance our understanding of adsorption, transport, and reaction phenomena of relevance to catalytic processes critical to carbon mitigation in the context of the energy transition. We combine synthetic, kinetic, spectroscopic, and reaction engineering tools in an effort to discover and develop novel catalysts and reactors that lower the capital and carbon footprint of large-scale chemical processes.
• Xiaowei Wu
• Austin Morales
• Joseph Lane
• Varad Joshi
• Meghana Idamakanti
• Suchetana Samanta
• Dhagash Pandit
2025: Rutherford Aris Award, ISCRE
2023: Early Career Advisory Board, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
2021: Young Investigator, AIChE Journal Futures Issue
2020: Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
2020: Young Investigator, ChemCatChem
2020: ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award
2019: Emerging Investigator, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
2018: ISCRE Travel Award for Young Researchers
2017: UH Provost Travel Award
Selected Publications
- Afrin, S., Bollini, P, On the Utility of Ce3+ Spin-Orbit Transitions in the Interpretation of Rate Data in Ceria Catalysis: Theory, Validation, and Application, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127 234-247, 2023
- Chen, J., Bollini, P., Balakotaiah, V., Shallow-Bed Reactor Design for the Autothermal Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane over MoVTeNbOx Catalysts Chem. Eng. J. 474 45660-145672, 2023
- Hall, J. N., Kropf, J., Delferro, M, Bollini, P., Kinetic and X‑ray Absorption Spectroscopic Analysis of Catalytic Redox Cycles over Highly Uniform Polymetal Oxo Clusters, ACS Catal. 13 5406−5427, 2023
- Chen, J., Sun, Z., Balakotaiah, V., Bollini, P., A Global Kinetic Model for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane over Mixed Metal Oxide Catalysts at Supra-Ambient Pressures, Chem. Eng. J. 445 136605-136621, 2022
- Zhao, X., Ning, Q., Grabow, L. C., Rimer, J. D., Bollini, P., Carbonate Dimorphism, and the Reinterpretation of Rates of Lattice and Excess Oxygen Driven Catalytic Cycles, J. Catal. 416 423-438, 2022
- Afrin, S., Bollini, P., A Transient Kinetic Analysis of the Evolution of a Reducible Metal Oxide Towards Catalyzing Non-Oxidative Alkanol Dehydrogenation, J. Catal. 393 290-302, 2020
- Hall, J.N., Bollini, P, Metal-Organic Framework MIL-100 Catalyzed Acetalization of Benzaldehyde with Methanol: Lewis or Brønsted Acid Catalysis?, ACS Catal. 10 3750-3763, 2020
- Hall, J.N., Bollini, P., Low-Temperature, Ambient Pressure Oxidation of Methane to Methanol Over Every Tri-Iron Node in a Metal-Organic Framework Material, Chem. Eur. J. 26 16639-16643, 2020
- Hall, J.N., Bollini, P., Enabling Access to Reduced Open-Metal Sites in Metal-Organic Framework Materials through Choice of Anion Identity: The Case of MIL-100(Cr), ACS Materials. Lett. 2 838-844, 2020
- Hall, J.N., Bollini, P., Quantification of Open-Metal Sites in Metal−Organic Frameworks Using Irreversible Water Adsorption, Langmuir 36 1345-1356, 2020