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
Ge, J., Weatherspoon, H. B., & Peters, B. (2026). Modeling the nucleation and growth of covalent organic frameworks: Size distributions and aspect ratios. Chemical Engineering Science, 323, Article 123177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2025.123177
Adams, K., Ge, J., & Peters, B. (2025). Multisite Microkinetic Models in Catalysis: Automatic Formulation and Direct Solutions of the Master Equation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129(15), 7285-7294. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c01655
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
Falkner, S., Coretti, A., Peters, B., Bolhuis, P. G., & Dellago, C. (2025). Revisiting shooting point Monte Carlo methods for transition path sampling. Journal of Chemical Physics, 163(3), Article 034105. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0261744
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