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Ruth Pachter is affiliated with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the United States. Their research contributions span materials science and engineering, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and related subfields.

Their scholarly work primarily addresses topics such as:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties

The main fields of study in Pachter's work include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

They have also contributed to several subfields of study, specifically:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Notable recent publications by Ruth Pachter include:

  • Halogen Etch of Ti3AlC2 MAX Phase for MXene Fabrication (2021) published in ACS Nano
  • Prediction of the specific heat of polymers from experimental data and machine learning methods (2021) published in Polymer
  • Interstitial Nature of Mn2+ Doping in 2D Perovskites (2021) published in ACS Nano
  • Surface Functionalization of Ti3C2Tx MXene Nanosheets with Catechols: Implication for Colloidal Processing (2021) published in Langmuir
  • Toward Architected Nanocomposites: MXenes and Beyond (2020) published in ACS Nano

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Jie Jiang
  • Rahul Rao
  • Allyson Boyington
  • Sergei Rigin
  • John Bacsa

The venues where Ruth Pachter most commonly publishes are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Nano
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Best Publications

  • Nature of Molecular Interactions of Peptides with Gold, Palladium, and Pd-Au Bimetal Surfaces in Aqueous Solution

    Hendrik Heinz;Barry L. Farmer;Ras B. Pandey;Joseph M. Slocik

  • Halogen Etch of Ti3AlC2 MAX Phase for MXene Fabrication.

    Ali Jawaid;Asra Hassan;Asra Hassan;Gregory Neher;Gregory Neher;Dhriti Nepal

  • Ground state electronic structures and spectra of zinc complexes of porphyrin, tetraazaporphyrin, tetrabenzoporphyrin, and phthalocyanine: A density functional theory study

    Kiet A. Nguyen;Ruth Pachter

  • Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships for Melting Points and Densities of Ionic Liquids

    Steven Trohalaki;Ruth Pachter;Greg W Drake;Tommy Hawkins

  • A study of water clusters using the effective fragment potential and Monte Carlo simulated annealing

    Paul N. Day;Ruth Pachter;Mark S. Gordon;Grant N. Merrill

  • The joint automated repository for various integrated simulations (JARVIS) for data-driven materials design

    Kamal Choudhary;Kamal Choudhary;Kevin F. Garrity;Andrew C.E. Reid;Brian DeCost

  • Observation and Interpretation of Annulated Porphyrins: Studies on the Photophysical Properties of meso-Tetraphenylmetalloporphyrins

    Joy E. Rogers;Kiet A. Nguyen;David C. Hufnagle;Daniel G. McLean

  • Comparative theoretical study of single-wall carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes

    Brahim Akdim;Ruth Pachter;Xiaofeng Duan;W. Wade Adams

  • Sequence-specific 1H NMR assignments and secondary structure in solution of Escherichia coli trp repressor.

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;R. Pachter;R. B. Altman;S. B. Iyer

  • Understanding Structural and Optical Properties of Nanoscale CdSe Magic-Size Quantum Dots: Insight from Computational Prediction

    Kiet A. Nguyen;Paul N. Day;Ruth Pachter

  • Accelerated Discovery of Efficient Solar-cell Materials using Quantum and Machine-learning Methods.

    Kamal Choudhary;Marnik Bercx;Jie Jiang;Ruth Pachter

  • Pronounced effects of anisotropy on plasmonic properties of nanorings fabricated by electron beam lithography.

    Rachel Near;Christopher Tabor;Jinsong Duan;Jinsong Duan;Ruth Pachter

  • TDDFT Study of One- and Two-Photon Absorption Properties: Donor−π−Acceptor Chromophores

    Paul N. Day;Kiet A. Nguyen;Ruth Pachter

  • Calculation of the structure and absorption spectra of phthalocyanines in the gas-phase and in solution

    P.N. Day;Zhiqiang Wang;R. Pachter

  • Adsorption and Diffusion of Oxygen on Single-Layer Graphene with Topological Defects

    Faisal Mehmood;Ruth Pachter;Weijie Lu;John J. Boeckl

  • Design Parameters for Tuning the Type 1 Cu Multicopper Oxidase Redox Potential: Insight from a Combination of First Principles and Empirical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Gongyi Hong;Dmitri M. Ivnitski;Glenn R. Johnson;Plamen Atanassov

  • Prediction of Melting Points for Ionic Liquids

    Steven Trohalaki;Ruth Pachter

  • The solution structures of Escherichia coli trp repressor and trp aporepressor at an intermediate resolution.

    Cheryl Arrowsmith;Ruth Pachter;Russ Altman;Oleg Jardetzky

  • Analysis of Absorption Spectra of Zinc Porphyrin, Zinc meso-Tetraphenylporphyrin, and Halogenated Derivatives

    Kiet A. Nguyen;Paul N. Day;Ruth Pachter;Sergei Tretiak

  • Calculation of two-photon absorption spectra of donor-π-acceptor compounds in solution using quadratic response time-dependent density functional theory

    Paul N. Day;Kiet A. Nguyen;Ruth Pachter

  • Toward Understanding Amino Acid Adsorption at Metallic Interfaces: A Density Functional Theory Study

    Gongyi Hong;Hendrik Heinz;Rajesh R. Naik;Barry L. Farmer

  • Nanoscale tensile, shear, and failure properties of layered silicates as a function of cation density and stress

    Gregory D. Zartman;Hua Liu;Brahim Akdim;Ruth Pachter

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Wade Adams
W. Wade Adams Rice University
Rajesh R. Naik
Rajesh R. Naik United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Dhriti Nepal
Dhriti Nepal United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Richard A. Vaia
Richard A. Vaia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Hendrik Heinz
Hendrik Heinz University of Colorado Boulder
Paras N. Prasad
Paras N. Prasad University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Timothy J. Bunning
Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University
Saber M. Hussain
Saber M. Hussain United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Paresh Chandra Ray
Paresh Chandra Ray Jackson State University

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