Blake A Simmons

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2026

Baral, Nawa Raj, Thomas Eng, Deepanwita Banerjee, Blake A Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne D Scown. "Cost and carbon implications of flexible biomanufacturing to produce bio-based gasoline, jet fuel, and platform chemicals." Chemical Engineering Journal 543 (2026) 177641.

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2025

Islam, Md Tahmid, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Edward E. K Baidoo, Paul Wolski, Hemant Choudhary, Daniel Putnam, Robert Hutmacher, Jackie Atim, Corinne D Scown, Henrik V Scheller, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, and Alberto Rodriguez. "Enhancement of sorghum biomass hydrolysis by addition of amylases to an ionic liquid-based deconstruction process." BMC Research Notes 19.1 (2025).

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2024

Dalton, Jutta, Tyler Huntington, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Mengziang Lei, Cayci Hill, Jorge Angeles, Daniel Putnam, Jeff Dahlberg, John M Gladden, Blake A Simmons, Robert Hutmacher, Corinne D Scown, and Henrik V Scheller. "Impact of Drought Stress on Sorghum bicolor Yield, Deconstruction, and Microbial Conversion Determined in a Feedstocks-to-Fuels Pipeline." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 12.42 (2024) 15613–15622.

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Tian, Yang, Yuan Gao, Halbay Turumtay, Emine Akyuz Turumtay, Yen Ning Chai, Hemant Choudhary, Joon-Hyun Park, Chuan-Yin Wu, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Katherine B Louie, Thomas Harwood, Dylan Chin, Khanh M Vuu, Benjamin P Bowen, Patrick M Shih, Edward E.K Baidoo, Trent R Northen, Blake A Simmons, Robert Hutmacher, Jackie Atim, Daniel Putnam, Corinne D Scown, Jenny C Mortimer, Henrik V Scheller, and Aymerick Eudes. "Engineered reduction of S-adenosylmethionine alters lignin in sorghum." Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts 17.1 (2024).

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Islam, Md Tahmid, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Edward E.K Baidoo, Paul Wolski, Hemant Choudhary, Daniel Putnam, Robert Hutmacher, Jackie Atim, Corinne D Scown, Henrik V Scheller, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, and Alberto Rodriguez. "M74 - Enhancement of sorghum hydrolysis by addition of amylases to an ionic liquid-based deconstruction process." SIMB Annual Meeting And Exhibition 2024.

Baral, Nawa Raj, Deepanwita Banerjee, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Blake A Simmons, Steven W Singer, and Corinne D Scown. "Integration of genome-scale metabolic model with biorefinery process model reveals market-competitive carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel utilizing microbial cell mass lipids and biogenic CO2." BioResources 19.3 (2024) 4056–4086.

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Achinivu, Ezinne C, Brian W Blankenship, Nawa Raj Baral, Hemant Choudhary, Ramu Kakumanu, Mood Mohan, Edward E.K Baidoo, Corinne D Scown, Anthe George, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden. "Biomass pretreatment with distillable ionic liquids for an effective recycling and recovery approach." Chemical Engineering Journal 479 (2024) 147824.

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2022

Lin, Chien-Yuan, Yang Tian, Kimberly Nelson-Vasilchik, Joel Hague, Ramu Kakumanu, Mi Yeon Lee, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Jessica Trinh, Christopher M De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Trent R Northen, Edward E.K Baidoo, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Corinne D Scown, Daniel Putnam, Albert P Kausch, Henrik V Scheller, and Aymerick Eudes. "Engineering sorghum for higher 4-hydroxybenzoic acid content." Metabolic Engineering Communications 15 (2022) e00207.

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Achinivu, Ezinne C, Mica Cabrera, Athiyya Umar, Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden. "In Situ Synthesis of Protic Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.37 (2022) 12090–12098.

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Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D Scown. "Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022).

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2021

Banerjee, Deepanwita, Thomas Eng, Yusuke Sasaki, Aparajitha Srinivasan, Asun M Oka, Robin A Herbert, Jessica Trinh, Vasanth R Singan, Ning Sun, Daniel Putnam, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Aindrila Mukhopadhyay. "Genomics Characterization of an Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum in Bioreactor Cultivation Under Ionic Liquid Stress." Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 9 (2021).

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Achinivu, Ezinne C, Skye rank, Nawa Raj Baral, Lalitendu Das, Mood Mohan, Peter Otoupal, Emara Shabir, Sean Utan, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden. "Alkanolamines as Dual Functional Solvents for Biomass Deconstruction and Bioenergy Production." Green Chemistry 23.21 (2021) 8611–8631.

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Baral, Nawa Raj, Minliang Yang, Benjamin G Harvey, Blake A Simmons, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, and Corinne D Scown. "Production Cost and Carbon Footprint of Biomass-Derived Dimethylcyclooctane as a High-Performance Jet Fuel Blendstock." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.35 (2021) 11872–11882.

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Barcelos, Carolina A, Asun M Oka, Jipeng Yan, Lalitendu Das, Ezinne C Achinivu, Harsha Magurudeniya, Jie Dong, Simay Akdemir, Nawa Raj Baral, Chunsheng Yan, Corinne D Scown, Deepti Tanjore, Ning Sun, Blake A Simmons, John M Gladden, and Eric R Sundstrom. "High-Efficiency Conversion of Ionic Liquid-Pretreated Woody Biomass to Ethanol at the Pilot ScaleHigh-Efficiency Conversion of Ionic Liquid-Pretreated Woody Biomass to Ethanol at the Pilot Scale." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9.11 (2021) 4042–4053.

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Magurudeniya, Harsha, Nawa Raj Baral, Alberto Rodriguez, Corinne D Scown, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Anthe George, Blake A Simmons, and John M Gladden. "Use of ensiled biomass sorghum increases ionic liquid pretreatment efficiency and reduces biofuel production cost and carbon footprint." Green Chemistry (2021).

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2020

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Blake A Simmons, Jenny C Mortimer, Patrick M Shih, and Corinne D Scown. "Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.15 (2020) 8639–8648.

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2019

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown. "Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel." ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2019) 15434–15444.

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Martinez‐Hernandez, Elias, Xinguang Cui, Corinne D Scown, Myriam A Amezcua‐Allieri, Jorge Aburto, and Blake A Simmons. "Techno‐economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries." Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (2019).

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Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown. "Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet fuel blendstocks." Energy & Environmental Science 12.3 (2019) 807–824.

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2017

Neupane, Binod, N V. S. N. Murthy Konda, Seema Singh, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown. "Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas and Water Intensity of Cellulosic Biofuel Production Using Cholinium Lysinate Ionic Liquid Pretreatment." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 5.11 (2017) 10176–10185.

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2016

Liszka, Michael J, Aram Kang, NVSN M Konda, Kim Tran, John M Gladden, Seema Singh, Jay D Keasling, Corinne D Scown, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Kenneth L Sale. "Switchable ionic liquids based on di-carboxylic acids for one-pot conversion of biomass to an advanced biofuel." 18 (2016) 4012–4021.

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Sun, Jian, NVSN M Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Feng Xu, Corinne D Scown, Blake A Simmons, and Seema Singh. "CO₂ enabled process integration for the production of cellulosic ethanol using bionic liquids." Energy & Environmental Science 9 (2016) 2822–2834.

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