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
Bal, V., & Peters, B. (2021). Coupled Population Balance and Species Balance Models of Crystallization: Analytic Solutions and Data Fits. Crystal Growth and Design, 21(1), 227-234. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01047
Bal, V., & Peters, B. (2021). Crystallization with Sinusoidal Modulation of Stirrer Speed: Frequency Response Analysis and Secondary Nucleation Kinetics. Crystal Growth and Design, 21(1), 235-242. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c01048
Khanna, V., Anwar, J., Frenkel, D., Doherty, M. F., & Peters, B. (2021). Free energies of crystals computed using Einstein crystal with fixed center of mass and differing spring constants. Journal of Chemical Physics, 154(16), [164509]. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044833
Shayesteh Zadeh, A., & Peters, B. (2021). Multiscale Models for Fibril Formation: Rare Events Methods, Microkinetic Models, and Population Balances. Life, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.3390/life11060570
Vandervelden, C., Jystad, A., Peters, B., & Caricato, M. (Accepted/In press). Predicted Properties of Active Catalyst Sites on Amorphous Silica: Impact of Silica Preoptimization Protocol. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 60(35), 12834-12846. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c01849