Faraday Discussion 154: Ionic Liquids

Topics: Physical Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Process Chemistry, Keywords: Ionic Liquids, Chemical Reactivity, Thermodynamics

Date: /22/23/24/ August 2011, Belfast, United Kingdom, Europe

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Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are currently the focus of an intense research effort because of their remarkable potential for applications coupled to favourable environmental properties. On a more fundamental level, RTILs constitute an important class of highly correlated Coulomb fluids whose molecular constituents are complex ions with tunable shape and size.

The hybrid organic- ionic nature of RTILs and the resulting interplay between different intermolecular forces give rise to a complex phenomenology whose decoding requires the close integration of experimental, theoretical and computational methods.

RTILs constitute a new and exciting playground for interdisciplinary research in soft condensed matter. This meeting will discuss fundamental experimental and theoretical aspects of the physical chemistry of RTILs.

Themes:
• Thermodynamics and phase behavior of ionic fluids
• Microscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations
• Transport and relaxation in ionic liquids
• Chemical reactivity and interfacial behaviour