title: Spotlight on ionic liquids.
abstract: Ionic liquids are an emerging class of materials with a diverse and extraordinary set of properties. Understanding the origins of these properties and how they can be controlled by design to serve valuable practical applications presents a wide array of challenges and opportunities to the chemical physics and physical chemistry community. We highlight here some of the significant progress already made and future research directions in this exciting area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8066, USA. castner@jcp.rutgers.edu
authors.forename: Edward W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Castner
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Wishart
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry*; D012106:Research
chemical_list: D052578:Ionic Liquids