title: Viscosities of the mixtures of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride with water, acetonitrile and glucose: a molecular dynamics simulation and experimental study.
abstract: A recently improved ionic liquid force field was used to compute the viscosity for binary and ternary mixtures of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([emim][Cl]) with water, acetonitrile, and glucose. For the same systems, experimental viscosity data are provided. The simulation and experimental results were in reasonable agreement. Simulations consistently overestimate the viscosities for the mixtures of [emim][Cl] and glucose while the viscosities of the mixtures of glucose and water are well reproduced. Both experiments and simulations show that the addition of acetonitrile reduces the viscosity of a solution of [emim][Cl] and glucose by more than an order of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: Energy Biosciences Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-1462, USA.
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Mandan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chidambaram
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Berend
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Smit
authors.forename: Alexis T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D000097:Acetonitriles / Q000737:chemistry*; D005947:Glucose / Q000737:chemistry*; D007093:Imidazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D014783:Viscosity; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000097:Acetonitriles; D007093:Imidazoles; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D014867:Water; D005947:Glucose; C518739:1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium; C032159:acetonitrile