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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
100
Citations
34040
World Ranking
1282
National Ranking
28

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

John A. Ripmeester is affiliated with the National Research Council Canada in Canada. Their research focuses on environmental science, engineering, and materials science, with significant work also covering subfields such as environmental chemistry, materials chemistry, aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's research topics emphasize methane hydrates and related phenomena, spacecraft and cryogenic technologies, CO₂ sequestration and geologic interactions, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and inorganic fluorides and related compounds.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John A. Ripmeester include:

  • Saman Alavi
  • Sanehiro Muromachi
  • Kyuchul Shin
  • Byeonggwan Lee
  • Christopher I. Ratcliffe

The research has been published in a variety of venues, particularly in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Energy & Fuels
  • CrystEngComm
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Notable recent papers include:

  • Enhanced methane storage in clathrate hydrates induced by antifreezes, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Experimental Study on Hydrate Structure Transition Using an In Situ High-Pressure Powder X-ray Diffractometer: Application in CO₂ Capture, 2022, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Chlorine-35 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as an Indirect Probe of the Oxidation Number of Tin in Tin Chlorides, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Structural CO₂ capture preference of semiclathrate hydrate formed with tetra-n-butylammonium chloride, 2022, CrystEngComm
  • Superheating of Structure I Gas Hydrates within the Structure II Cyclopentane Hydrate Shell, 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

John A. Ripmeester was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000 by the Academy of Science.

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

  • Recovering Methane from Solid Methane Hydrate with Carbon Dioxide

    Huen Lee;Yongwon Seo;Yu-Taek Seo;Igor L. Moudrakovski

  • Supramolecular Control of Reactivity in the Solid State Using Linear Molecular Templates

    Leonard R. MacGillivray;and Jennifer L. Reid;John A. Ripmeester

  • Complex gas hydrate from the Cascadia margin

    Hailong Lu;Yu-taek Seo;Jong-won Lee;Igor Moudrakovski

  • Enhanced rate of gas hydrate formation in a fixed bed column filled with sand compared to a stirred vessel

    Praveen Linga;Nagu Daraboina;John A. Ripmeester;Peter Englezos

  • Structure, Composition, and Thermal Expansion of CO2 Hydrate from Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Measurements†

    Konstantin A. Udachin;and Christopher I. Ratcliffe;John A. Ripmeester

  • A new apparatus to enhance the rate of gas hydrate formation: Application to capture of carbon dioxide

    Praveen Linga;Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Ju Dong Lee;John Ripmeester

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

    J. A. Ripmeester;C. I. Ratcliffe

  • Efficient recovery of CO2 from flue gas by clathrate hydrate formation in porous silica gels.

    Yu-Taek Seo;Igor L. Moudrakovski;John A. Ripmeester;Jong-Won Lee

  • 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

  • Gas Hydrate Formation in a Variable Volume Bed of Silica Sand Particles

    Praveen Linga;Cef Haligva;Sung Chan Nam;John A. Ripmeester

  • Molecular-dynamics study of structure II hydrogen clathrates.

    Saman Alavi;J. A. Ripmeester;D. D. Klug

  • Effect of antifreeze proteins on the nucleation, growth, and the memory effect during tetrahydrofuran clathrate hydrate formation.

    Huang Zeng;Lee D. Wilson;Virginia K. Walker;John A. Ripmeester

  • 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

  • Effects of till vs no-till on the quality of soil organic matter

    M.A. Arshad;M. Schnitzer;D.A. Angers;J.A. Ripmeester

  • Direct space methods for powder X-ray diffraction for guest-host materials: applications to cage occupancies and guest distributions in clathrate hydrates.

    Satoshi Takeya;Konstantin A. Udachin;Igor L. Moudrakovski;Robin Susilo

  • 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

  • Capture of carbon dioxide from flue or fuel gas mixtures by clathrate crystallization in a silica gel column

    Adebola Adeyemo;Adebola Adeyemo;Rajnish Kumar;Rajnish Kumar;Praveen Linga;John Ripmeester

  • Nuclear shielding of trapped xenon obtained by proton-enhanced, magic-angle spinning xenon-129 NMR spectroscopy

    John A. Ripmeester

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher I. Ratcliffe
Christopher I. Ratcliffe National Research Council Canada
Igor L. Moudrakovski
Igor L. Moudrakovski Max Planck Society
Saman Alavi
Saman Alavi University of Ottawa
Gary D. Enright
Gary D. Enright National Research Council Canada
Peter Englezos
Peter Englezos University of British Columbia
John S. Tse
John S. Tse University of Saskatchewan
Kui Yu
Kui Yu Sichuan University
Virginia K. Walker
Virginia K. Walker Queen's University
Rajnish Kumar
Rajnish Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Satoshi Takeya
Satoshi Takeya National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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