Contact Information
and Biomolecular Engineering
600 S. Mathews Ave.
292 RAL, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
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
Additional Campus Affiliations
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor, School of Chemical Sciences
Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Recent Publications
Chen, Z., Kim, C. A., Wang, Y. Y., Sadow, A. D., LaPointe, A. M., & Peters, B. (2025). Polymer Molecular Weight Distributions: A Tutorial on Transformations between Number Density, Mass Density, and Linear/Logarithmic Axes. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 64(7), 3695-3703. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c04233
Farag, H., & Peters, B. (2025). Antifreeze Proteins Bind Irreversibly to Ice, so Why Does Thermal Hysteresis Depend on Bulk Concentration? Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16(9), 2320-2325. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03324
Manis, L. K., Ge, J., Kim, C. A., Ejiogu, E., Chen, Z., Yappert, R. D., & Peters, B. (2025). Population Balance Models for Catalytic Depolymerization: From Elementary Steps to Multiphase Reactors. Accounts of chemical research, 58(12), 1847–1855. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00088
Burcham, C. L., Doherty, M. F., Peters, B. G., Price, S. L., Salvalaglio, M., Reutzel-Edens, S. M., Price, L. S., Addula, R. K. R., Francia, N., Khanna, V., & Zhao, Y. (2024). Pharmaceutical Digital Design: From Chemical Structure through Crystal Polymorph to Conceptual Crystallization Process. Crystal Growth and Design, 24(13), 5417-5438. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c01390
Chen, Z., Sadow, A. D., & Peters, B. (2024). A Microkinetic Model for Isomerizing Ethenolysis. ACS Catalysis, 14(8), 6339-6348. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.4c00465