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  • 1988 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For important contributions to the scientific understanding of the electronic properties of organic solids, including photoconduction, energy transfer, solidstate reactions, nonlinear optics, electronic structure theory, and conducting polymers

Overview

Ronald R. Chance is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, environmental science, and energy, with a substantial emphasis on mechanical engineering and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. They have contributed to areas including global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The main topics explored in their work encompass algal biology and biofuel production, carbon dioxide capture technologies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, thermodynamic and exergetic analyses of power and cooling systems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, water quality monitoring and analysis, and climate change policy and economics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald R. Chance include Yanhui Yuan, Valerie M. Thomas, Matthew J. Realff, Ankush Karemore, and William Porubsky.

Their publications have appeared in venues such as Journal of CO2 Utilization, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Authorea, Applied Sciences, and the Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering.

Recent papers include:

  • Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of different CO2 supply options for an algal biorefinery (2020, Journal of CO2 Utilization)
  • Biomass and pigment production for Arthrospira platensis via semi-continuous cultivation in photobioreactors: Temperature effects (2020, Biotechnology and Bioengineering)
  • Greenhouse Gas Impact of Algal Bio-Crude Production for a Range of CO2 Supply Scenarios (2021, Applied Sciences)
  • Global evaluation of economics of microalgae-based biofuel supply chain using GIS-based framework (2022, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering)
  • Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for an ethanol production process based on genetically modified cyanobacteria: CO2 sourcing options (2020, Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining)

Ronald R. Chance was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 for contributions to understanding the electronic properties of organic solids, photoconduction, energy transfer, solid-state reactions, nonlinear optics, electronic structure theory, and conducting polymers.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Fluorescence and Energy Transfer Near Interfaces

    R. R. Chance;A. Prock;R. Silbey

  • Chain-length dependence of electronic and electrochemical properties of conjugated systems: polyacetylene, polyphenylene, polythiophene, and polypyrrole

    Jean-Luc Bredas;R. Silbey;D. S. Boudreaux;R. R. Chance

  • Highly conducting polyparaphenylene, polypyrrole, and polythiophene chains: An ab initio study of the geometry and electronic-structure modifications upon doping

    J. L. Brédas;B. Thémans;J. G. Fripiat;J. M. André

  • Optical Nonlinearities in One-Dimensional-Conjugated Polymer Crystals.

    C. Sauteret;J. P. Hermann;R. Frey;F. Pradère

  • Comparative theoretical study of the doping of conjugated polymers: Polarons in polyacetylene and polyparaphenylene

    Jean-Luc Bredas;R. R. Chance;R. Silbey

  • Highly conducting charge‐transfer complexes of poly(p‐phenylene)

    D. M. Ivory;G. G. Miller;J. M. Sowa;L. W. Shacklette

  • Conjugated polymeric materials : opportunities in electronics, optoelectronics and molecular electronics

    J. L. Bredas;R. R. Chance

  • Structural basis for semiconducting and metallic polymer dopant systems

    R. H. Baughman;J. L. Brédas;R. R. Chance;R. L. Elsenbaumer

  • Lifetime of an emitting molecule near a partially reflecting surface

    R. R. Chance;A. Prock;R. Silbey

  • A planar–nonplanar conformational transition in conjugated polymer solutions

    G. N. Patel;R. R. Chance;J. D. Witt

  • Electrical and optical properties of highly conducting charge-transfer complexes of poly(p-phenylene)

    L.W. Shacklette;R.R. Chance;D.M. Ivory;G.G. Miller

  • A nonempirical effective Hamiltonian technique for polymers: Application to polyacetylene and polydiacetylene

    J. L. Brédas;R. R. Chance;R. Silbey;G. Nicolas

  • Exploring the Framework Hydrophobicity and Flexibility of ZIF-8: From Biofuel Recovery to Hydrocarbon Separations

    Ke Zhang;Ryan P. Lively;Ryan P. Lively;Chen Zhang;Ronald R. Chance;Ronald R. Chance

  • Alcohol and water adsorption in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks

    Ke Zhang;Ryan P. Lively;Michelle E. Dose;Michelle E. Dose;Andrew J. Brown

  • Polydiacetylenes : synthesis, structure and electronic properties

    David Bloor;R. R. Chance

  • Thermochromism in a polydiacetylene crystal

    R.R. Chance;R.H. Baughman;H. Muller;Craig J. Eckhardt

  • Thermal effects on the optical properties of single crystals and solution‐cast films of urethane substituted polydiacetylenes

    R. R. Chance;G. N. Patel;J. D. Witt

  • Comments on the classical theory of energy transfer

    R. R. Chance;A. Prock;R. Silbey

  • Ab initio effective Hamiltonian study of the electronic properties of conjugated polymers

    J. L. Brédas;R. R. Chance;R. H. Baughman;R. Silbey

  • Chromism in Polydiacetylene Solutions and Crystals

    R. R. Chance

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray H. Baughman
Ray H. Baughman The University of Texas at Dallas
William J. Koros
William J. Koros Georgia Institute of Technology
Ryan P. Lively
Ryan P. Lively Georgia Institute of Technology
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Ronald L. Elsenbaumer
Ronald L. Elsenbaumer The University of Texas at Arlington
Christopher W. Jones
Christopher W. Jones Georgia Institute of Technology
Sankar Nair
Sankar Nair Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew J. Realff
Matthew J. Realff Georgia Institute of Technology
David S. Sholl
David S. Sholl Georgia Institute of Technology

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