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., 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
Kim, C. A., Sahasrabudhe, C. A., Wang, Y. Y., Yappert, R., Heyden, A., Huang, W., Sadow, A. D., & Peters, B. (2024). Population Balance Equations for Reactive Separation in Polymer Upcycling. Langmuir, 40(8), 4096-4107. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03004
Wang, Y. Y., Tennakoon, A., Wu, X., Sahasrabudhe, C., Qi, L., Peters, B. G., Sadow, A. D., & Huang, W. (2024). Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Polyethylene Under Reactive Separation. ACS Catalysis, 14(3), 2084-2094. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.3c04987
Weatherspoon, H., & Peters, B. (2024). A population balance model for the kinetics of covalent organic framework synthesis. Journal of Chemical Physics, 160(16), Article 164313. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197656
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