Contact Information
and Biomolecular Engineering
600 S. Mathews Ave.
292 RAL, MC-712
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Janet and William H. Lycan Professor, School of Chemical Sciences
Professor, Chemical and 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
Bal, V., & Peters, B. (Accepted/In press). Crystallization with Sinusoidal Modulation of Stirrer Speed: Frequency Response Analysis and Secondary Nucleation Kinetics. Crystal Growth and Design. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01048
Anwar, J., Leitold, C., & Peters, B. (2020). Solid-solid phase equilibria in the NaCl-KCl system. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(14), [144109]. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0003224
Bal, V., & Peters, B. (Accepted/In press). Coupled Population Balance and Species Balance Models of Crystallization: Analytic Solutions and Data Fits. Crystal Growth and Design. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01047
Guironnet, D., & Peters, B. (2020). Tandem Catalysts for Polyethylene Upcycling: A Simple Kinetic Model. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(19), 3935-3942. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01363
Kamat, K., Guo, R., Reutzel-Edens, S. M., Price, S. L., & Peters, B. (2020). Diabat method for polymorph free energies: Extension to molecular crystals. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(24), [244105]. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024727