This book contains some of the papers presented at the ACS meeting symposium Ionic Liquids: Science and Applications, held at the 243rd National ACS meeting in San Diego, California, March 25-29, 2012. The symposium contained nine sessions (Energetic Ionic Liquids; Physical Properties/Physical Chemistry; Ionic Liquids for Fuel, Energy, and Chemical Production; Biomass and Renewables; Advanced Electrolytes; Molecular Modeling; Nanomaterials; New Materials; and Biotechnology). More than 75 presentations were given. The overarching theme of this symposium was the science and applications of ionic liquids. No longer are ionic liquids interesting simply because they could be considered part of the next generation of "green " solvents, but their unique physical and chemical properties make them a wholly unique class of solvents. As shown in the presentations, the fundamental science gleaned from physical chemistry, molecular modeling, and characterization of ionic liquids facilitates the proliferation of ionic liquid applications in biotechnology, advanced electrolytes, and nanomaterials, to name but a few areas where ionic liquids are being investigated.
Preface ;
1. Ionic Liquid Fuels for Chemical Propulsion ; Stefan
Schneider, Tom Hawkins, Yonis Ahmed, Stephan Deplazes, and Jeff Mills ;
2.
Ionic Liquids in Electrospray Propulsion Systems ; Benjamin D. Prince, Bruce
A. Fritz, and Yu-Hui Chiu ;
3. Decomposition and Combustion of Ionic Liquid
Compound Synthesized ; from N,N,N',N'-Tetramethylethylenediamine and Nitric
Acid ; Shiqing Wang and Stefan T. Thynell ;
4. Ionic Liquid-Based
Electrolytes for High Energy, Safer Lithium Batteries ; G. B. Appetecchi, M.
Montanino, and S. Passerini ;
5. Development and Selection of Ionic Liquid
Electrolytes for Hydroxide ; Conducting Polybenzimidazole Membranes in
Alkaline Fuel Cells ; Elise B. Fox, Hector R. Colon-Mercado, Yuanxin Chen,
and W. S. Winston Ho ;
6. Natural Fiber Welding: Ionic Liquid Facilitated
Biopolymer Mobilization ; and Reorganization ; Luke M. Haverhals, Matthew P.
Foley, E. Kate Brown, Douglas M. Fox, ; Hugh C. De Long, and Paul C. Trulove
;
7. Advanced Biopolymer Composite Materials from Ionic Liquid Solutions ;
Mirela L. Maxim, Jacqueline F. White, Leah E. Block, Gabriela Gurau, and ;
Robin D. Rogers ;
8. Degradation of Chitin Utilizing Acid Functionalized
Ionic Liquids ; Technology ; W. Matthew Reichert, Arsalan Mirjafari, James H.
Davis Jr., Taylor Goodie, ; Nathan G. Williams, Vivian Ho, Matthew Yoder, and
Maelynn La ;
9. Lipid-Inspired Ionic Liquids Containing Long-Chain
Appendages: Novel ; Class of Biomaterials with Attractive Properties and
Applications ; Arsalan Mirjafari, Richard A. O>'Brien, Samuel M. Murray,
Kaila M. Mattson, ; Niloufar Mobarrez, Kevin N. West, and James H. Davis Jr.
;
10. Gas Solubility in Ionic Liquids: Mixed Gases in Pure Ionic Liquids and
; Single Gases in Binary Liquid Mixtures ; Dirk Tuma and Gerd Maurer ;
11.
Ionic Liquids in Extractive Distillation of Ethanol/Water: From Laboratory ;
to Pilot Plant ; G. Wytze Meindersma, Esteban Quijada-Maldonado, Tim A. M.
Aelmans, ; Juan Pablo Gutierrez Hernandez, and Andre B. de Haan ;
12.
Al2O3-Based Nanoparticle-Enhanced Ionic Liquids (NEILs) for Advanced ; Heat
Transfer Fluids ; Ann E. Visser, Nicholas J. Bridges, Brenda L. Garcia-Diaz,
Joshua R. Gray, and ; Elise B. Fox ;
13. OKE Spectroscopy and Molecular
Dynamics Simulations of Nonpolar and ; Polar Molecules in Ionic Liquids ;
Edward L. Quitevis, Fehmi Bardak, Dong Xiao, Larry G. Hines, Jr., Pillhun
Son, ; Richard A. Bartsch, Peng Yang, and Gregory A. Voth ;
14. Probing the
Interface of Charged Surfactants in Ionic Liquids by XPS ; Lang G. Chen and
Harry Bermudez ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index
Ann E. Visser and Nicholas J. Bridges are both affiliated with the Savannah River National Laboratory. Robin D. Rogers is affiliated with the University of Alabama.
