Christopher Hardacre

32.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
550 papers, 27.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Hardacre is a scholar working on Catalysis, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Hardacre has authored 550 papers receiving a total of 27.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 352 papers in Catalysis, 246 papers in Materials Chemistry and 126 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christopher Hardacre's work include Ionic liquids properties and applications (214 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (181 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (120 papers). Christopher Hardacre is often cited by papers focused on Ionic liquids properties and applications (214 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (181 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (120 papers). Christopher Hardacre collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and France. Christopher Hardacre's co-authors include Vasile I. Pârvulescu, Richard G. Compton, John D. Holbrey, M. Nieuwenhuyzen, R. Burch, Johan Jacquemin, Leigh Aldous, Tristan G. A. Youngs, Alexandre Goguet and David W. Rooney and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Hardacre

544 papers receiving 27.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Catalysis in Ionic Liquids

2007 2.1k citations Vasile I. Pârvulescu, Christopher Hardacre profile →
Industrial Applications of Ionic Liquids

2020 397 citations Johan Jacquemin, Christopher Hardacre et al. profile →
Shielding Protection by Mesoporous Catalysts for Improving Plasma-Catalytic Ambient Ammonia Synthesis

2022 171 citations Christopher Hardacre, Xiaolei Fan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Hardacre United Kingdom	81	16.2k	10.5k	6.3k	5.3k	5.2k	550	27.8k
Peter Wasserscheid Germany	90	19.0k 1.2×	11.3k 1.1×	10.2k 1.6×	5.7k 1.1×	3.6k 0.7×	527	34.0k
Jaı̈rton Dupont Brazil	78	13.2k 0.8×	7.1k 0.7×	12.7k 2.0×	4.2k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	420	28.0k
Tom Welton United Kingdom	74	28.5k 1.8×	6.6k 0.6×	14.2k 2.3×	9.0k 1.7×	7.5k 1.5×	208	42.6k
Gary A. Baker United States	72	10.4k 0.6×	9.6k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	5.5k 1.0×	2.9k 0.6×	348	24.8k
Edward J. Maginn United States	76	14.0k 0.9×	4.5k 0.4×	2.8k 0.4×	7.2k 1.4×	2.8k 0.5×	256	22.9k
Kenneth R. Seddon United Kingdom	90	31.6k 2.0×	8.6k 0.8×	14.5k 2.3×	7.8k 1.5×	8.2k 1.6×	408	47.5k
Haoran Li China	69	6.2k 0.4×	6.4k 0.6×	5.8k 0.9×	3.1k 0.6×	900 0.2×	444	19.1k
Joan F. Brennecke United States	67	19.6k 1.2×	2.7k 0.3×	3.6k 0.6×	9.2k 1.7×	2.7k 0.5×	244	24.9k
Buxing Han China	113	18.9k 1.2×	18.4k 1.8×	11.9k 1.9×	13.6k 2.6×	1.8k 0.3×	1.1k	54.7k
De‐en Jiang United States	100	5.6k 0.3×	20.6k 2.0×	2.8k 0.4×	3.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.2×	453	32.8k

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Buckingham, Mark A., et al.. (2025). Improving CO Oxidation Catalysis Over High Entropy Spinels by Increasing Disorder. Advanced Science. 12(15). e2413424–e2413424. 10 indexed citations

Galante, Miguel T., et al.. (2025). Unassisted Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Conversion into Liquid Products by a Light-Responsive Gas-Diffusion Electrode. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(24). 8988–8998.

Dugkhuntod, Pannida, Shaowei Chen, Jianguo Huang, et al.. (2024). Product selectivity controlled by the nano-environment of Ru/ZSM-5 catalysts in nonthermal plasma catalytic CO2 hydrogenation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 348. 123826–123826. 16 indexed citations

Inceesungvorn, Burapat, et al.. (2024). MOO3 catalysed hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline at near room temperature. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 164. 112416–112416. 1 indexed citations

Stere, Cristina, et al.. (2024). Removal and Oxidation of Low Concentration tert-Butanol from Potable Water using Nonthermal Plasma Coupled with Metal Oxide Adsorption. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(9). 2121–2134. 1 indexed citations

Paterson, James, Zhuoran Xu, Christopher Hardacre, et al.. (2024). Tuning the Size of TiO₂-Supported Co Nanoparticle Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts Using Mn Additions. ACS Catalysis. 14(14). 10648–10657. 4 indexed citations

Zou, Run, Shanshan Xu, Huanhao Chen, et al.. (2023). Anchoring highly dispersed metal nanoparticles by strong electrostatic adsorption (SEA) on a dealuminated beta zeolite for catalysis. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(1). 164–173. 7 indexed citations

Mu, Junju, Ian P. Stott, Joanne L. Cook, et al.. (2023). Microstructural and thermodynamic characterization of wormlike micelles formed by polydisperse ionic surfactant solutions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(5). 1 indexed citations

Bahnemann, Detlef W., Peter K. J. Robertson, Chuanyi Wang, et al.. (2022). 2023 roadmap on photocatalytic water splitting. Journal of Physics Energy. 5(1). 12004–12004. 19 indexed citations

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Skillen, Nathan, et al.. (2021). Exploring lignin valorisation: the application of photocatalysis for the degradation of the β-5 linkage. Journal of Physics Energy. 3(3). 35002–35002. 13 indexed citations

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Leutzsch, Markus, Andrew J. Sederman, Mick D. Mantle, et al.. (2021). Bulk and Confined Benzene-Cyclohexane Mixtures Studied by an Integrated Total Neutron Scattering and NMR Method. Topics in Catalysis. 64(9-12). 722–734. 8 indexed citations

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Perez, Rafael F., Elise M. Albuquerque, Luiz Eduardo Pizarro Borges, Christopher Hardacre, & Marco A. Fraga. (2019). Aqueous-phase tandem catalytic conversion of xylose to furfuryl alcohol over [Al]-SBA-15 molecular sieves. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(19). 5350–5358. 11 indexed citations

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Doherty, Simon, Julian G. Knight, Ryan J. Summers, et al.. (2019). Highly Selective and Solvent-Dependent Reduction of Nitrobenzene to N-Phenylhydroxylamine, Azoxybenzene, and Aniline Catalyzed by Phosphino-Modified Polymer Immobilized Ionic Liquid-Stabilized AuNPs. ACS Catalysis. 9(6). 4777–4791. 100 indexed citations

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Henderson, Zoë, Andrew G. Thomas, Michael Wagstaffe, et al.. (2019). Reversible Reaction of CO₂ with Superbasic Ionic Liquid [P₆₆₆₁₄][benzim] Studied with in Situ Photoelectron Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(12). 7134–7141. 4 indexed citations

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Longo, Claudia, Miguel T. Galante, Robert C. Fitzmorris, et al.. (2018). Complex Oxides Based on Silver, Bismuth, and Tungsten: Syntheses, Characterization, and Photoelectrochemical Behavior. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(25). 13473–13480. 11 indexed citations

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Hardacre, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Understanding the heat capacity enhancement in ionic liquid-based nanofluids (ionanofluids). Journal of Molecular Liquids. 253. 326–339. 54 indexed citations

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Leutzsch, Markus, Andrew J. Sederman, Lynn F. Gladden, et al.. (2018). An integrated total neutron scattering – NMR approach for the study of heterogeneous catalysis. Chemical Communications. 54(72). 10191–10194. 10 indexed citations

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Taylor, S. F. Rebecca, et al.. (2017). Factors affecting bubble size in ionic liquids. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(22). 14306–14318. 14 indexed citations

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Raţ, Ciprian I., Octavian Dumitru Pavel, Christopher Hardacre, et al.. (2017). Heterocyclic bismuth(iii) compounds with transannular N→Bi interactions as catalysts for the oxidation of thiophenol to diphenyldisulfide. Catalysis Science & Technology. 7(22). 5343–5353. 28 indexed citations

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Bowron, Daniel T., et al.. (2016). Neutron Scattering of Aromatic and Aliphatic Liquids. ChemPhysChem. 17(13). 2043–2055. 45 indexed citations

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