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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
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
Ejiogu, E., & Peters, B. (2024). Kinetic Models for Polymer Upcycling by Tag-and-Cut Strategies. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 63(50), 21728-21738. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c02891
Kim, C. A., Shayesteh Zadeh, A., & Peters, B. (2024). Ethylene Polymerization Activity vs Grafting Affinity Trade-off Revealed by Importance Learning Analysis of In Silico Phillips Catalyst. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128(45), 19166-19181. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05331
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