Rob Atkin

17.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
233 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Rob Atkin is a scholar working on Catalysis, Electrochemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Atkin has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Catalysis, 79 papers in Electrochemistry and 66 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rob Atkin's work include Ionic liquids properties and applications (172 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (79 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (62 papers). Rob Atkin is often cited by papers focused on Ionic liquids properties and applications (172 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (79 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (62 papers). Rob Atkin collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Rob Atkin's co-authors include Gregory G. Warr, Robert Hayes, Frank Endres, Hua Li, Silvia Imberti, Vincent S. J. Craig, Mark W. Rutland, Simon Biggs, Natalia Borisenko and Grant B. Webber and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rob Atkin

229 papers receiving 14.6k 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.

Structure and Nanostructure in Ionic Liquids

2015 1.9k citations Gregory G. Warr, Rob Atkin et al. profile →
Mechanism of cationic surfactant adsorption at the solid–aqueous interface

2003 573 citations Rob Atkin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rob Atkin Australia	64	9.8k	4.7k	3.0k	2.6k	2.6k	233	14.7k
Gregory G. Warr Australia	55	6.7k 0.7×	2.9k 0.6×	4.9k 1.7×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	250	12.2k
José N. Canongia Lopes Portugal	65	14.8k 1.5×	4.8k 1.0×	3.9k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	239	18.4k
Kikuko Hayamizu Japan	52	7.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	5.2k 2.0×	2.8k 1.1×	239	13.8k
Robert Hayes Australia	39	4.2k 0.4×	2.2k 0.5×	938 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	58	7.1k
Jennifer M. Pringle Australia	53	5.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	6.2k 2.4×	4.0k 1.5×	191	13.0k
Margarida Costa Gomes France	52	6.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	848 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	170	9.1k
Huimin Luo United States	53	5.7k 0.6×	802 0.2×	977 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	161	10.8k
Juan M. Feliú Spain	86	4.0k 0.4×	13.2k 2.8×	1.3k 0.4×	14.7k 5.6×	8.6k 3.3×	569	27.8k
Liqiang Zheng China	54	4.0k 0.4×	800 0.2×	5.3k 1.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	258	9.8k
Robert A. Osteryoung United States	50	2.8k 0.3×	4.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	257	9.1k

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Wood, Kathleen, et al.. (2025). Surfactant self-assembly in water-in-salt electrolytes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 701. 138791–138791.

Sunny, Sanwar A., et al.. (2025). Mealworms and superworms fail to biodegrade PVC despite consumption. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 206. 106191–106191.

Zhang, Yunxiao, Hua Li, Jianan Wang, et al.. (2024). Potential-dependent superlubricity of stainless steel and Au(1 1 1) using a water-in-surface-active ionic liquid mixture. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt A). 355–364. 3 indexed citations

TIECCO, M., et al.. (2024). Tuning the nanostructure and tribological properties of a non-ionic deep eutectic solvent with water addition. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 683(Pt 1). 722–730. 1 indexed citations

Goodwin, Zachary A. H., Nicola Molinari, Hua Li, et al.. (2024). Long-Range Surface Forces in Salt-in-Ionic Liquids. ACS Nano. 18(50). 34007–34022. 5 indexed citations

Flematti, Gavin R., et al.. (2024). Expanded polystyrene is not chemically degraded by mealworms. RSC Sustainability. 3(1). 383–394. 4 indexed citations

Cai, Tao, Hua Li, Rob Atkin, et al.. (2023). Macroscale superlubricity of steel by polymer-based ionic liquids without a running-in period. Tribology International. 182. 108349–108349. 23 indexed citations

Mamme, Mesfin Haile, et al.. (2023). Molecular Resolution Nanostructure and Dynamics of the Deep Eutectic Solvent—Graphite Interface as a Function of Potential. Small. 19(12). e2204993–e2204993. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Yunxiao, Kathleen Wood, Jianan Wang, et al.. (2023). Phase behaviour and aggregate structures of the surface-active ionic liquid [BMIm][AOT] in water. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 652(Pt A). 749–757. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianan, Hua Li, Alessandra Serva, et al.. (2023). Ions Adsorbed at Amorphous Solid/Solution Interfaces Form Wigner Crystal-like Structures. ACS Nano. 18(1). 1181–1194. 15 indexed citations

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Cai, Tao, Xianzhe Wei, Yandong Wang, et al.. (2022). Outstanding Bio-Tribological Performance Induced by the Synergistic Effect of 2D Diamond Nanosheet Coating and Silk Fibroin. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(42). 48091–48105. 16 indexed citations

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Jones, Timothy W., Jacob Tse‐Wei Wang, Hua Li, et al.. (2020). Passivation by pyridine-induced PbI₂ in methylammonium lead iodide perovskites. RSC Advances. 10(40). 23829–23833. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Hua, Thomas Niemann, Ralf Ludwig, & Rob Atkin. (2020). Effect of Hydrogen Bonding between Ions of Like Charge on the Boundary Layer Friction of Hydroxy-Functionalized Ionic Liquids. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(10). 3905–3910. 26 indexed citations

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Jiang, Haihui Joy, et al.. (2020). Liquid nanostructure of choline lysinate with water and a model lignin residue. Green Chemistry. 23(2). 856–866. 17 indexed citations

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Pan, Hailong, Tristan Putzeys, Yingting Yi, et al.. (2020). Physicochemical study of diethylmethylammonium methanesulfonate under anhydrous conditions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(23). 234504–234504. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Hua, Iain M. Aldous, Werner Kunz, et al.. (2019). Potential Dependence of Surfactant Adsorption at the Graphite Electrode/Deep Eutectic Solvent Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(18). 5331–5337. 8 indexed citations

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Niemann, Thomas, Jan Neumann, Peter Stange, et al.. (2019). Die zweigesichtige Natur der Wasserstoffbrückenbindung in hydroxylfunktionalisierten ionischen Flüssigkeiten, offenbart durch Neutronendiffraktometrie und Molekulardynamik‐Simulation. Angewandte Chemie. 131(37). 13019–13024. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Hua, Nageshwar R. Yepuri, Andrew Nelson, et al.. (2018). Ionic Liquid Adsorption at the Silica–Oil Interface Revealed by Neutron Reflectometry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(42). 24077–24084. 15 indexed citations

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Atkin, Rob, et al.. (2017). Ionic Liquids as Grease Base Liquids. Lubricants. 5(3). 31–31. 12 indexed citations

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Cranston, Emily D., et al.. (2011). Nanotribology of protic ionic liquids : Green lubricants for micro-/nano-electromechanical devices. 241. 3 indexed citations

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