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Alan Brad Anton

Associate Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • energy and sustainable development
  • energy, environment, and sustainable development

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

Professor Anton?s research activities involve the mechanisms, kinetics, and thermochemistry of technologically important chemical reactions that occur at interfaces between fluid and solid phases. His principal focus currently is the conversion of cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (1986)
  • M.S., California Institute of Technology (1982) 
  • B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1979)

 

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • J.W. Dingee and A.B. Anton, “A New Perturbation Solution to the Michaelis-Menten Problem,” AIChE J., in press.
  • Heidi J. Park, John W. Dingee, Sean R. Fitzgibbon, A. Brad Anton, and Yong Lak Joo,“Controlling Cellulose Microstructure via Electrospinning with Applications in Enzymatic Hydrolysis,” J. Biobased Materials and Bienergy, in press (2007).
  • R.N. Carter, A.B. Anton, and G. Apai, “Reactions of p-Allyl with Atomic Oxygen and Hydroxyl on Ag(110),” Surface Sci. 290, 319 (1993)
  • A.M. Glines and A.B. Anton, “Effects of the Hydrogen-Induced (1x2) Surface Reconstruction on the Kinetics of Ethylene Hydrogenation on Ni(110),” Surface Sci. 286, 122 (1993)
  • A.B. Anton, “Mechanism, Configurational Degeneracy, and Mass Action in Transition State Rate Functions for Adsorption-Desorption Reactions,” J. Phys. Chem. 97, 1942 (1993)
  • R.N. Carter and A.B. Anton, “Magnitude and Effects of Adsorbent temperature Nonuniformities in Temperature-Programmed Desorption,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 10, 344 (1992)
  • M. A. DeAngelis, A. M. Glines, and A.B. Anton, “Precursor and Overlayer Structural Effects in the Interaction of CO with Ni(110),” J. Chem. Phys. 92, 8582 (1992)
  • M.A. DeAngelis and A.B. Anton, “Temperature Programming for Isothermal Desorption Rate Measurements,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 10, 3507 (1992)
  • A. M. Glines, M.A. DeAngelis, and A.B. Anton, "Differential Method for Measuring Coverage-Dependent Adsorption Probabilities,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 10, 3179 (1992)
  • R.N. Carter, A. B. Anton, and G. Apai, “Reactions of Allyl Chloride on Ag(110) to Form h3-C3H5 and 1,5-Hexadiene,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 4410 (1992)
  • A.M. Glines and A.B. Anton, “An Alternative for Gas Dosing in Ultrahigh Vacuum Adsorption Studies,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 63, 1826 (1992)
  • A. B. Anton, “Variances of Parameters Obtained from Nonlinear Curve Fits,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 62, 832 (1991)
  • A. B. Anton and D.C. Cadogan, “Mechanism and Kinetics of Water Formation on Pt(111), Surface Sci. 239, L548 (1990)
  • L.K. Verheij, M. B. Hugenschmidt, A.B. Anton, B. Poelsema, and G. Comsa, “A Molecular Beam Study of the Interaction Between Hydrogen and the Pt(111) Surface,” Surface Sci. 210, 1 (1989)
  • L.K. Verheij, J. Lux, A.B. Anton, B. Poelsema, and G. Comsa, “A Molecular beam Studey of the Interactionof of CO Molecules with a Pt(111) Surface Using Pulse-Shape Analysis,” Surface Sci. 182, 390 (1987)
  • A.B. Anton, J.E. Parmeter, and W.H. Weinberg, “The Adsorption and Decomposition of Formaldehyde on the Ru(001) Surface:  The Spectroscopic Identification of h2-H2CO and h2-HCO,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 107, 5558 (1985)
  • T.S. Rahman, A.B. Anton, N.R. Avery, and W.H. Weinberg, “Electron-Energy-Loss Spectroscopy of Ordered Oxygen Overlayers on Ru(001),” Phys. Rev. Letters 51, 1979 (1983)
  • N.R. Avery, W.H. Weinberg, A.B. Anton, and B.H. Toby, “End-On and Side-On Bonding of Ketones to Surfaces:  Acetone on the Ru(001) and Pt(111) Surfaces,” Phys. Rev. Letters 51, 682 (1983)