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D-Index
43
Citations
8994
World Ranking
17082
National Ranking
44

Patricia A. Hunt publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patricia A. Hunt sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 105 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Patricia A. Hunt D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patricia A. Hunt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patricia A. Hunt is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions to materials chemistry, catalysis, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds

Patricia A. Hunt has published extensively in multiple venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Birth Defects Research
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Frequent collaborators over the course of their career have been Tom Welton, Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Kristin Artinger, and Michel Vekemans.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Ether functionalisation, ion conformation and the optimisation of macroscopic properties in ionic liquids" (2020) published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Conformational design concepts for anions in ionic liquids" (2020) published in Chemical Science
  • "The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)" (2024) published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • "Charge transfer and polarisability in ionic liquids: a case study" (2022) published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Curled cation structures accelerate the dynamics of ionic liquids" (2021) published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen bonding in ionic liquids

    Patricia A. Hunt;Claire R. Ashworth;Richard P. Matthews

  • Mixtures of ionic liquids.

    Heiko Niedermeyer;Jason P. Hallett;Ignacio J. Villar-Garcia;Patricia A. Hunt

  • Understanding the polarity of ionic liquids

    M. A. Ab Rani;A. Brant;A. Brant;L. Crowhurst;A. Dolan;A. Dolan

  • Characterising the Electronic Structure of Ionic Liquids: An Examination of the 1‐Butyl‐3‐Methylimidazolium Chloride Ion Pair

    Patricia A. Hunt;Barbara Kirchner;Tom Welton

  • Why does a reduction in hydrogen bonding lead to an increase in viscosity for the 1-butyl-2,3-dimethyl-imidazolium-based ionic liquids?

    Patricia A. Hunt

  • Doubly ionic hydrogen bond interactions within the choline chloride-urea deep eutectic solvent.

    Claire R. Ashworth;Richard P. Matthews;Tom Welton;Patricia A. Hunt

  • Thermal decomposition of carboxylate ionic liquids: trends and mechanisms

    Matthew T. Clough;Karolin Geyer;Patricia A. Hunt;Jürgen Mertes

  • Ultrafast Radiationless Deactivation of Organic Dyes: Evidence for a Two-State Two-Mode Pathway in Polymethine Cyanines

    Adelaida Sanchez-Galvez;Patricia Hunt;Michael A. Robb;Massimo Olivucci

  • Structural characterization of the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ion pair using ab initio methods.

    Patricia A. Hunt;Ian R. Gould

  • The Structure of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids: Insights From Ion-Pair Interactions

    Patricia A. Hunt;Ian R. Gould;Barbara Kirchner

  • Competitive pi interactions and hydrogen bonding within imidazolium ionic liquids.

    Richard P. Matthews;Tom Welton;Patricia A. Hunt

  • Salts dissolved in salts: ionic liquid mixtures

    Matthew Y. Lui;Lorna Crowhurst;Jason P. Hallett;Patricia A. Hunt

  • Ionic liquids: not always innocent solvents for cellulose

    Matthew T. Clough;Karolin Geyer;Patricia A. Hunt;Sunghee Son

  • A physicochemical investigation of ionic liquid mixtures

    Matthew Thomas Clough;Colin R. Crick;John Grasvik;Patricia A. Hunt

  • The simulation of imidazolium-based ionic liquids†

    Patricia Hunt

  • Cooperativity in ionic liquids.

    Simone Koßmann;Jens Thar;Barbara Kirchner;Patricia A. Hunt

  • Hydrogen bonding in 1-butyl- and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquids.

    Ioannis Skarmoutsos;Dimitris Dellis;Richard P. Matthews;Tom Welton

  • Heavier Group 2 Metals and Intermolecular Hydroamination: A Computational and Synthetic Assessment

    Anthony G M Barrett;Christine Brinkmann;Mark R Crimmin;Michael S Hill

  • Why are ionic liquid ions mainly associated in water? A Car-Parrinello study of 1-ethyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride water mixture.

    C Spickermann;J Thar;S B C Lehmann;S Zahn

  • Hydrogen bonding and π–π interactions in imidazolium-chloride ionic liquid clusters

    Richard P. Matthews;Tom Welton;Patricia A. Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Welton
Tom Welton Imperial College London
Jason P. Hallett
Jason P. Hallett Imperial College London
Barbara Kirchner
Barbara Kirchner University of Bonn
Andrew J. P. White
Andrew J. P. White Imperial College London
Robert G. Palgrave
Robert G. Palgrave University College London
Tobias Kraus
Tobias Kraus Leibniz Association
George J. P. Britovsek
George J. P. Britovsek Imperial College London
Ruth M. Lynden-Bell
Ruth M. Lynden-Bell University of Cambridge
Peter Schwerdtfeger
Peter Schwerdtfeger Massey University
Rolf Hempelmann
Rolf Hempelmann Saarland University

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