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
Chen, Z., Paterson, A. L., Perras, F. A., & Peters, B. (2023). Polyethylene in Dead-End Silica Nanopores: Forces and Mobility from Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Exchange Spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(1), 788-796. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c07510
Chen, Z., Ejiogu, E., & Peters, B. (Accepted/In press). Quantifying synergy for mixed end-scission and random-scission catalysts in polymer upcycling. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3re00390f
Chen, S., Tennakoon, A., You, K. E., Paterson, A. L., Yappert, R., Alayoglu, S., Fang, L., Wu, X., Zhao, T. Y., Lapak, M. P., Saravanan, M., Hackler, R. A., Wang, Y. Y., Qi, L., Delferro, M., Li, T., Lee, B., Peters, B., Poeppelmeier, K. R., ... Huang, W. (2023). Ultrasmall amorphous zirconia nanoparticles catalyse polyolefin hydrogenolysis. Nature Catalysis, 6(2), 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-023-00910-x
Farag, H., & Peters, B. (2023). Engulfment Avalanches and Thermal Hysteresis for Antifreeze Proteins on Supercooled Ice. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127(24), 5422-5431. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01089
Farag, H., & Peters, B. (2023). Free energy barriers for anti-freeze protein engulfment in ice: Effects of supercooling, footprint size, and spatial separation. Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(9), Article 094501. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131983