Faculty and staff
- Michael H. Peters, Ph.D.
Professor - Phone: (804) 828-7789
- Fax: (804) 828-3846
- Email: mpeters@vcu.edu
- Address
- 601 West Main Street, Room 403A
- P.O. Box 843028
- Richmond, Virginia 23284-3028
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1981
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1979
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Dayton, 1977
Classes taught
- Quantitative anatomy and systems physiology
- Introduction to chemical engineering – mass and energy balances
- Chemical and biochemical phenomena
- Cellular engineering
- Unit operations for chemical and life science engineers
- Statistical mechanics
Research interests
- Real-time biomolecular simulation
- Vascular tissue engineering
- Stem cell engineering
Current research topics
- Small molecule drug synthesis
- Cellular therapeutics
Publications
- Peters, M.H., “Real Time Computational Analysis of Biomolecular Systems,” McGraw-Hill, NY, (March 2006).
- Zhu, D., Lennon, S.P., Peters, M.H., Finney, W.C., and Singh, M., “Brownian Diffusion and Surface Kinetics of Liposome and Viral Particle Uptake by Human Lung Cancer Cells In-Vitro,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, in press, (2006).
- Peters, M.H., “From Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Transport Phenomena: Complexities of Scales in Time and Space,” McGraw-Hill, NY, (March 2005).
- Zhang, Y., Peters, M.H., and Li, Y., “Nonequilibrium Multiple Time Scale Dynamic Simulation of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in Structured Protein Systems,” Proteins, Structure, Function and Genetics, 52, 339-348, (2003).
- Peters, M.H., “The Smoluchowski Diffusion Equation for Structured Macromolecules Near Structured Surfaces,” J. Chemical Physics, 112, 5488-5498 (2000).
- Peters, M.H., “Fokker-Planck Equation, Molecular Friction, and Molecular Dynamics for Brownian Particle Transport Near External Solid Surfaces,” J. Statistical Phys., 94, 557-587, (1999).
- Peters, M. H., “Fokker-Planck Equation and the Grand Molecular Friction Tensor for Coupled Rotational and Translational Motions of Structured Brownian Particles Near Structured Surfaces,” J. Chem. Phys., 110, 528-538, (1999).
- Peters, M. H., “Brownian Particle Adsorption in Unsteady-State Viscous Flows in Pores,” J Colloid and Interface Sci., 186, 477-492 (1997).