Contact Information
and Biomolecular Engineering
600 S. Mathews Ave.
292 RAL, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor, School of Chemical Sciences
Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Biography
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor
Research Description
Studies rates and mechanisms of catalysis, nucleation, and crystal growth with rare events techniques from molecular simulation and quantum chemistry.
Education
PhD Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
BS Mathematics, University of Missouri, 1999
BS Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1999
Recent Publications
Abécassis, B., Greenberg, M. W., Bal, V., McMurtry, B. M., Campos, M. P., Guillemeney, L., Mahler, B., Prevost, S., Sharpnack, L., Hendricks, M. P., DeRosha, D., Bennett, E., Saenz, N., Peters, B., & Owen, J. S. (2022). Persistent nucleation and size dependent attachment kinetics produce monodisperse PbS nanocrystals. Chemical Science, 13(17), 4977-4983. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sc06134h
Kamat, K., Naullage, P. M., Molinero, V., & Peters, B. (2022). Diffusion Attachment Model for Long Helical Antifreeze Proteins to Ice. Biomacromolecules, 23(2), 513-519. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01247
Khan, S. A., Godahewa, S. M., Wimalasiri, P. N., Thompson, W. H., Scott, S. L., & Peters, B. (2022). Modeling the Structural Heterogeneity of Vicinal Silanols and Its Effects on TiCl4Grafting onto Amorphous Silica. Chemistry of Materials, 34(9), 3920-3930. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c04016
Peters, B. (2022). Crystal nucleation: Rare made common and captured by Raman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(21), [e2204971119]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2204971119
Shayesteh Zadeh, A., & Peters, B. (2022). Conformational Interconversion Kinetics, Boundary Layer Transport, and Crystal Growth Impedance. Crystal Growth and Design, 22(7), 4298-4304. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00277