Ruth Pachter

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
227 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Ruth Pachter is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Pachter has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Materials Chemistry, 69 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 40 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Ruth Pachter's work include 2D Materials and Applications (30 papers), Graphene research and applications (29 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (23 papers). Ruth Pachter is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (30 papers), Graphene research and applications (29 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (23 papers). Ruth Pachter collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Japan. Ruth Pachter's co-authors include Kiet A. Nguyen, Paul N. Day, Brahim Akdim, Steven Trohalaki, Rajesh R. Naik, Richard A. Vaia, Soumya S. Patnaik, Dhriti Nepal, Gongyi Hong and Faisal Mehmood and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Pachter

219 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Halogen Etch of Ti₃AlC₂ MAX Phase for MXene Fabrication

2021 269 citations Gregory Neher, Dhriti Nepal et al. ACS Nano profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Pachter United States	44	3.6k	1.7k	1.2k	1.0k	889	227	6.1k
Dmitry Bedrov United States	54	3.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.9×	1.2k 1.4×	186	9.0k
Antonio Faraone United States	35	3.0k 0.8×	3.5k 2.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.8×	148	8.0k
Yufang Liu China	36	1.9k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	558 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	478	5.9k
J. P. Wilcoxon United States	42	4.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	685 0.8×	94	6.6k
Toru Asahi Japan	39	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	870 0.7×	934 0.9×	699 0.8×	263	5.2k
Yasushi Maeda Japan	50	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	765 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	258	7.9k
Mercedes Crego‐Calama Netherlands	31	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.8×	635 0.6×	675 0.8×	95	6.6k
Kyle J. M. Bishop United States	43	4.1k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	2.5k 2.1×	1.8k 1.7×	693 0.8×	111	8.4k
A. D. Dinsmore United States	38	6.4k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	897 0.9×	969 1.1×	74	8.7k
Massimiliano Cavallini Italy	49	3.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	1.8k 1.8×	999 1.1×	174	6.6k

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Rao, Rahul, Jie Jiang, Ruth Pachter, et al.. (2025). Chiral Phonons and Anomalous Excitation-Energy-Dependent Raman Intensities in Layered AgCrP ₂ Se ₆. ACS Nano. 19(29). 26377–26387.

Zhang, Zheng, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and Characterization of New Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Metal Halides [(CH₃)₃SO]M₂I₃ (M = Cu and Ag). Inorganic Chemistry. 63(4). 2174–2184. 11 indexed citations

Day, Paul N., Ruth Pachter, Kiet A. Nguyen, & Gongyi Hong. (2024). Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity: Analysis of Density Functional Theory Calculations. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(13). 5475–5486.

Selhorst, Ryan, Jie Jiang, Benjamin S. Conner, et al.. (2024). Role of Strain on Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin CuInP₂S₆. Chemistry of Materials. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Jinxia, Tielyr D. Creason, Dhritiman Banerjee, et al.. (2023). Intermolecular arrangement facilitated broadband blue emission in group-12 metal (Zn, Cd) hybrid halides and their applications. Materials Today Chemistry. 30. 101502–101502. 24 indexed citations

Rao, Rahul, Ryan Selhorst, Jie Jiang, et al.. (2023). Investigating Strain between Phase-Segregated Domains in Cu-Deficient CuInP₂S₆. Chemistry of Materials. 35(19). 8020–8029. 15 indexed citations

Jiang, Jie, Ruth Pachter, Ryan Selhorst, et al.. (2022). Patterned graphene: Analysis of the electronic structure and electron transport by first principles computational modeling. Applied Surface Science. 589. 152953–152953. 4 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kiet A., Ruth Pachter, & Paul N. Day. (2022). Theoretical Investigation of the Electronic Spectra of Cadmium Chalcogenide 2D Nanoplatelets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 126(47). 8818–8825. 1 indexed citations

Nguyen, Kiet A., Ruth Pachter, & Paul N. Day. (2021). Theoretical analysis of structures and electronic spectra of molecular colloidal cadmium sulfide clusters and nanoplatelets. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(9). 94302–94302. 4 indexed citations

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Torma, Andrew J., Wenbin Li, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Interstitial Nature of Mn²⁺ Doping in 2D Perovskites. ACS Nano. 15(12). 20550–20561. 47 indexed citations

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Neher, Gregory, Faisal Mehmood, Ruth Pachter, et al.. (2021). Surface Functionalization of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene Nanosheets with Catechols: Implication for Colloidal Processing. Langmuir. 37(18). 5447–5456. 43 indexed citations

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Hong, Gongyi, Ruth Pachter, Lars‐Oliver Essen, & Thorsten Ritz. (2020). Electron transfer and spin dynamics of the radical-pair in the cryptochrome from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by computational analysis. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 152(6). 65101–65101. 8 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Kiet A., Ruth Pachter, & Paul N. Day. (2020). Systematic Study of the Properties of CdS Clusters with Carboxylate Ligands Using a Deep Neural Network Potential Developed with Data from Density Functional Theory Calculations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(50). 10472–10481. 13 indexed citations

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Nepal, Dhriti, W. Joshua Kennedy, Ruth Pachter, & Richard A. Vaia. (2020). Toward Architected Nanocomposites: MXenes and Beyond. ACS Nano. 15(1). 21–28. 34 indexed citations

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Day, Paul N., Ruth Pachter, Kiet A. Nguyen, & Rongchao Jin. (2019). Theoretical Prediction of Optical Absorption and Emission in Thiolated Gold Clusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 123(30). 6472–6481. 11 indexed citations

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Neher, Gregory, Tyson C. Back, Faisal Mehmood, et al.. (2019). Electron-Withdrawing Effect of Native Terminal Groups on the Lattice Structure of Ti₃C₂T_x MXenes Studied by Resonance Raman Scattering: Implications for Embedding MXenes in Electronic Composites. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2(10). 6087–6091. 70 indexed citations

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Day, Paul N., Ruth Pachter, & Kiet A. Nguyen. (2018). Theoretical Analysis of Optical Absorption and Emission in Mixed Noble Metal Nanoclusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(16). 4058–4066. 5 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Kiet A., Ruth Pachter, Jie Jiang, & Paul N. Day. (2018). Systematic Study of Structure, Stability, and Electronic Absorption of Tetrahedral CdSe Clusters with Carboxylate and Amine Ligands. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 122(33). 6704–6712. 16 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Kiet A., Ruth Pachter, & Paul N. Day. (2017). Calculations of One- and Two-Photon Absorption Spectra for Molecular Metal Chalcogenide Clusters with Electron-Acceptor Ligands. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(8). 1748–1759. 5 indexed citations

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Kong, Jing, Emil Proynov, Jianguo Yu, & Ruth Pachter. (2017). Describing a Strongly Correlated Model System with Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(13). 3142–3146. 10 indexed citations

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