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  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the design of methods for complex distillation and crystallization processes.

Overview

Michael F. Doherty is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several fields including materials science, engineering, and chemistry, with a strong focus on materials chemistry and physical and theoretical chemistry. The scientist has contributed to numerous topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, crystallography and molecular interactions, and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, among others.

Their work covers a variety of specialized areas, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Nanoparticles Nucleation Surface Interactions
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions

Michael F. Doherty has published extensively in a number of scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • AIChE Journal
  • Computers & Chemical Engineering

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Doherty include:

  • A two-phase model that unifies and extends the classical models of membrane transport, 2022, Science
  • Free energies of crystals computed using Einstein crystal with fixed center of mass and differing spring constants, 2021, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Pharmaceutical Digital Design: From Chemical Structure through Crystal Polymorph to Conceptual Crystallization Process, 2024, Crystal Growth & Design
  • A New Software Framework for Implementing Crystal Growth Models to Materials of Any Crystallographic Complexity, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Performing solvation free energy calculations in LAMMPS using the decoupling approach, 2020, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • Baron Peters
  • Vikram Khanna
  • Yongsheng Zhao
  • Tobias Mazal
  • Neha A. Padwal

In recognition of their work, Michael F. Doherty was named a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for the design of methods for complex distillation and crystallization processes.

Best Publications

  • A Novel Distillate Policy for Batch Reactive Distillation with Application to the Production of Butyl Acetate

    Ganesh Venimadhavan;Michael F. Malone;Michael F. Doherty

  • Measurement of Residue Curve Maps and Heterogeneous Kinetics in Methyl Acetate Synthesis

    Wei Song;Ganesh Venimadhavan;Jason M. Manning;Michael F. Malone

  • Conceptual design of distillation systems

    Michael F. Doherty;Michael F. Malone

  • Crystal Shape Engineering

    Michael A. Lovette;Andrea Robben Browning;Derek W. Griffin;Jacob P. Sizemore

  • Reactive distillation by design

    M. F Doherty;G Buzad

  • From Form to Function: Crystallization of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients

    Narayan Variankaval;Aaron S. Cote;Michael F. Doherty

  • Modeling crystal shapes of organic materials grown from solution

    Daniel Winn;Michael F. Doherty

  • Vapor-liquid phase equilibrium in systems with multiple chemical reactions

    Sophie Ung;Michael F. Doherty

  • Homogeneous nucleation of methane hydrates: unrealistic under realistic conditions.

    Brandon C. Knott;Valeria Molinero;Michael F. Doherty;Baron Peters

  • The simple distillation of homogeneous reactive mixtures

    Domingos Barbosa;Michael F. Doherty

  • Design and synthesis of homogeneous azeotropic distillations. 3. The sequencing of columns for azeotropic and extractive distillations

    Michael F. Doherty;Glenn A. Caldarola

  • On the dynamics of distillation processes—I: The simple distillation of multicomponent non-reacting, homogeneous liquid mixtures

    M.F. Doherty;J.D. Perkins

  • Design and minimum-reflux calculations for double-feed multicomponent reactive distillation columns

    Domingos Barbosa;Michael F. Doherty

  • Design and synthesis of homogeneous azeotropic distillations. 2. Minimum reflux calculations for nonideal and azeotropic columns

    Sanford G. Levy;David B. Van Dongen;Michael F. Doherty

  • A new pressure-swing-distillation process for separating homogeneous azeotropic mixtures

    Jeffrey P. Knapp;Michael F. Doherty

  • Green Chemical Engineering Aspects of Reactive Distillation

    Michael F Malone;Robert S Huss;Michael F Doherty

  • Design and synthesis of homogeneous azeotropic distillations. 1. Problem formulation for a single column

    David B. Van Dongen;Michael F. Doherty

  • The influence of equilibrium chemical reactions on vapor—liquid phase diagrams

    Domingos Barbosa;Michael F. Doherty

  • Design method for kinetically controlled, staged reactive distillation columns

    Matthew J. Okasinski;Michael F. Doherty

  • On the dynamics of distillation processes—III: The topological structure of ternary residue curve maps

    M.F. Doherty;J.D. Perkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Malone
Michael F. Malone University of Massachusetts Amherst
Baron Peters
Baron Peters University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric W. McFarland
Eric W. McFarland University of California, Santa Barbara
Ignacio E. Grossmann
Ignacio E. Grossmann Carnegie Mellon University
Lorenz T. Biegler
Lorenz T. Biegler Carnegie Mellon University
James S. Speck
James S. Speck University of California, Santa Barbara
Zhumabay Bakenov
Zhumabay Bakenov Nazarbayev University
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Glenn H. Fredrickson University of California, Santa Barbara
Bradley F. Chmelka
Bradley F. Chmelka University of California, Santa Barbara

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