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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to complex kinetic modeling, particularly for understanding the pathways by which hydrocarbons and polymers undergo pyrolysis.
  • 2018 - E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Linda J. Broadbelt is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry. The main topics of their work focus on areas such as Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Polymer Crystallization and Properties, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes.

Broadbelt has published extensively in journals that include:

  • ACS Engineering Au
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Pavlo Kostetskyy
  • Elsa Koninckx
  • Keith E. J. Tyo
  • Xiaoyang Liu
  • Eugene Y.-X. Chen

Recent publications by Broadbelt encompass contributions to polymer science, catalysis, and biomass conversion. Selected papers include:

  • Design principles for intrinsically circular polymers with tunable properties, 2021, Chem
  • Insight into Polyethylene and Polypropylene Pyrolysis: Global and Mechanistic Models, 2021, Energy & Fuels
  • Progress and roadmap for electro-privileged transformations of bio-derived molecules, 2024, Nature Catalysis
  • Progress in Modeling of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis: A Review, 2020, Energy & Fuels
  • Review of the kinetics and simulations of linseed oil autoxidation, 2020, Progress in Organic Coatings

Their work contributes to kinetic modeling, catalytic transformations, and the chemical engineering of complex organic and inorganic systems, focusing on both fundamental principles and practical applications.

Broadbelt has received several distinctions including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019) for contributions to complex kinetic modeling, particularly for understanding the pathways by which hydrocarbons and polymers undergo pyrolysis
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2019
  • E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2006

Best Publications

  • A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction for Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 that accounts for 1260 ORFs and thermodynamic information.

    Adam M Feist;Christopher S Henry;Jennifer L Reed;Markus Krummenacker

  • Structural Relaxation of Polymer Glasses at Surfaces, Interfaces, and In Between

    Rodney D. Priestley;Christopher John Ellison;Linda J. Broadbelt;John M. Torkelson

  • Model polymer nanocomposites provide an understanding of confinement effects in real nanocomposites.

    Perla Rittigstein;Rodney D. Priestley;Linda J. Broadbelt;John M. Torkelson

  • Thermodynamics-Based Metabolic Flux Analysis

    Christopher S. Henry;Linda J. Broadbelt;Vassily Hatzimanikatis

  • Separation of CO2 from CH4 using mixed-ligand metal-organic frameworks.

    Youn Sang Bae;Karen L. Mulfort;Karen L. Mulfort;Houston Frost;Patrick Ryan

  • Group Contribution Method for Thermodynamic Analysis of Complex Metabolic Networks

    Matthew D. Jankowski;Christopher S. Henry;Linda J. Broadbelt;Vassily Hatzimanikatis

  • Exploring the diversity of complex metabolic networks

    Vassily Hatzimanikatis;Chunhui Li;Justin A. Ionita;Christopher S. Henry

  • A mechanistic model of fast pyrolysis of glucose-based carbohydrates to predict bio-oil composition

    R. Vinu;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • A critical review on hemicellulose pyrolysis

    Xiaowei Zhou;Wenjun Li;Ross Mabon;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • Computer Generated Pyrolysis Modeling: On-the-Fly Generation of Species, Reactions, and Rates

    Linda J. Broadbelt;Scott M. Stark;Michael T. Klein

  • Rate-Based Construction of Kinetic Models for Complex Systems

    Roberta G. Susnow;Anthony M. Dean;William H. Green;P. Peczak

  • Genome-Scale Thermodynamic Analysis of Escherichia coli Metabolism

    Christopher S. Henry;Matthew D. Jankowski;Linda J. Broadbelt;Vassily Hatzimanikatis

  • Unraveling the Reactions that Unravel Cellulose

    Heather B. Mayes;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • A mechanistic model of fast pyrolysis of hemicellulose

    Xiaowei Zhou;Wenjun Li;Ross Mabon;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • The 1-D hindered rotor approximation

    Jim Pfaendtner;Xinrui Yu;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • MINEs: open access databases of computationally predicted enzyme promiscuity products for untargeted metabolomics

    James G Jeffryes;James G Jeffryes;Ricardo L Colastani;Mona Elbadawi-Sidhu;Tobias Kind

  • Experimental and Mechanistic Modeling of Fast Pyrolysis of Neat Glucose-Based Carbohydrates. 1. Experiments and Development of a Detailed Mechanistic Model

    Xiaowei Zhou;Michael W. Nolte;Heather B. Mayes;Brent H. Shanks

  • Detailed mechanistic modeling of high-density polyethylene pyrolysis: Low molecular weight product evolution

    Seth E. Levine;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • Mechanistic modeling of polymer pyrolysis: Polypropylene

    Todd M. Kruse;Hsi Wu Wong;Linda J. Broadbelt

  • Computational screening of metal-organic frameworks for xenon/krypton separation

    Patrick Ryan;Omar K. Farha;Linda J. Broadbelt;Randall Q. Snurr

  • Discovery and analysis of novel metabolic pathways for the biosynthesis of industrial chemicals: 3-hydroxypropanoate

    Christopher S. Henry;Linda J. Broadbelt;Vassily Hatzimanikatis;Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall Q. Snurr
Randall Q. Snurr Northwestern University
Vassily Hatzimanikatis
Vassily Hatzimanikatis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
John M. Torkelson
John M. Torkelson Northwestern University
Michael T. Klein
Michael T. Klein University of Delaware
Rodney D. Priestley
Rodney D. Priestley Princeton University
Lonnie D. Shea
Lonnie D. Shea University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brent H. Shanks
Brent H. Shanks Iowa State University
SonBinh T. Nguyen
SonBinh T. Nguyen Northwestern University
Teresa K. Woodruff
Teresa K. Woodruff Northwestern University
Rajeev S. Assary
Rajeev S. Assary Argonne National Laboratory

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