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Christopher I. Ratcliffe

Christopher I. Ratcliffe

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Chemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
14617
World Ranking
6628
National Ranking
176

Overview

Christopher I. Ratcliffe is affiliated with the National Research Council Canada. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting environmental science, materials science, and engineering, with particular attention to methane hydrates and related phenomena.

The scientist has contributed to several fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Subfields within these disciplines cover Environmental Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Key topics explored in their work include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers

Christopher I. Ratcliffe's publication record features papers in a diverse range of scientific journals, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of their research. The main publication venues include:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Energy & Fuels
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ratcliffe cover various topics in the field of clathrate hydrates and materials chemistry. These include:

  • The Development of Clathrate Hydrate Science (2022), Energy & Fuels
  • Enhanced methane storage in clathrate hydrates induced by antifreezes (2021), Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Unusual species of methane hydrate detected in nanoporous media using solid state 13C NMR (2024), The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Direct 129Xe-NMR spectroscopy evidence of a mesogenic dendrimer with free void space (2023), Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • CCDC 2042608: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2021), The Cambridge Structural Database

Frequent collaborators contributing to these research efforts include:

  • John A. Ripmeester
  • Igor Moudrakovski
  • Byeonggwan Lee
  • Kyuchul Shin
  • Sanehiro Muromachi

Best Publications

  • A new clathrate hydrate structure

    John A. Ripmeester;John S. Tse;Christopher I. Ratcliffe;Brian M. Powell

  • Tuning clathrate hydrates for hydrogen storage

    Huen Lee;Jong-won Lee;Do Youn Kim;Jeasung Park

  • Anhydrous proton conduction at 150 °C in a crystalline metal–organic framework

    Jeff A. Hurd;Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Christopher I. Ratcliffe

  • Facile proton conduction via ordered water molecules in a phosphonate metal-organic framework.

    Jared M. Taylor;Roger K. Mah;Igor L. Moudrakovski;Christopher I. Ratcliffe

  • Xenon-129 NMR studies of clathrate hydrates: new guests for structure II and structure H

    J. A. Ripmeester;C. I. Ratcliffe

  • Laboratory analysis of a naturally occurring gas hydrate from sediment of the Gulf of Mexico

    D.W. Davidson;S.K. Garg;S.R. Gough;Y.P. Handa

  • Low-temperature cross-polarization/magic angle spinning carbon-13 NMR of solid methane hydrates: structure, cage occupancy, and hydration number

    J. A. Ripmeester;C. I. Ratcliffe

  • The ability of small molecules to form clathrate hydrates of structure II

    D. W. Davidson;Y. P. Handa;C. I. Ratcliffe;J. S. Tse

  • The nuclear magnetic resonance of 129Xe trapped in clathrates and some other solids

    J. A. Ripmeester;C. I. Ratcliffe;J. S. Tse

  • Single Crystal Diffraction Studies of Structure I, II and H Hydrates: Structure, Cage Occupancy and Composition

    Konstantin A Udachin;Christopher I Ratcliffe;John A Ripmeester

  • Cucurbit[n]urils (n = 5–8): A Comprehensive Solid State Study

    David Bardelang;Konstantin A. Udachin;Donald M. Leek;James C. Margeson

  • The Diverse Nature of Dodecahedral Cages in Clathrate Hydrates As Revealed by 129Xe and 13C NMR Spectroscopy: CO2 as a Small-Cage Guest†

    John A. Ripmeester;Christopher I. Ratcliffe

  • Multiple Families of Magic-Sized CdSe Nanocrystals with Strong Bandgap Photoluminescence via Noninjection One-Pot Syntheses

    Jianying Ouyang;Md. Badruz Zaman;Fu Jian Yan;Dennis Johnston

  • Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Polycarbazole, Polyindolocarbazole, and Polydiindolocarbazole Derivatives

    Isabelle Lévesque;‡ Pier-Olivier Bertrand;Nicolas Blouin;Mario Leclerc

  • A General Correlation for the 129Xe NMR Chemical Shift−Pore Size Relationship in Porous Silica-Based Materials

    Victor V. Terskikh;Igor L. Moudrakovski;Steven R. Breeze;Stephen Lang

  • Gradiently Alloyed ZnxCd1-xS Colloidal Photoluminescent Quantum Dots Synthesized via a Noninjection One-Pot Approach

    Jianying Ouyang;Christopher I. Ratcliffe;David Kingston;Baptiste Wilkinson

  • Synthesis of Mesostructured Lamellar Aluminophosphates Using Supramolecular Templates

    Abdelhamid Sayari;and Igor Moudrakovski;Jale Sudhakar Reddy;Christopher I. Ratcliffe

  • Structure H Hydrate: A Single Crystal Diffraction Study of 2,2-dimethylpentane·5(Xe, H2S)·34H2O

    K. A. Udachin;C. I. Ratcliffe;G. D. Enright;J. A. Ripmeester

  • Hydronium ion in the alunite-jarosite group

    John A. Ripmeester;Christopher I. Ratcliffe;John E. Dutrizac;John L. Jambor

  • Rotational and Translational Motions of Trapped Methane. Incoherent Inelastic Neutron Scattering of Methane Hydrate

    John S. Tse and;Christopher I. Ratcliffe;Brian M. Powell and;Varley F. Sears

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Ripmeester
John A. Ripmeester National Research Council Canada
Igor L. Moudrakovski
Igor L. Moudrakovski Max Planck Society
John S. Tse
John S. Tse University of Saskatchewan
Gary D. Enright
Gary D. Enright National Research Council Canada
Kui Yu
Kui Yu Sichuan University
Dennis D. Klug
Dennis D. Klug National Research Council Canada
Xiaohua Wu
Xiaohua Wu University of Geneva
Saman Alavi
Saman Alavi University of Ottawa
George K. H. Shimizu
George K. H. Shimizu University of Calgary
Benoit Simard
Benoit Simard National Research Council Canada

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