Publications
X Author: Blake A Simmons
2024
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).
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. DOI
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). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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). DOI
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). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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). DOI
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. DOI
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 Chemistry & Engineering
7.18 (2019) 15434 - 15444. DOI
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.
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). DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI
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. DOI