Thermodynamics and micro heterogeneity of ionic liquids.
The high degree of organisation in the fluid phase of room-temperature ionic liquids has major consequences on their macroscopic properties, namely on their behaviour as solvents. This nanoscale self-organisation is the result of an interplay between two types of interaction in the liquid phase - Coulomb and van der Waals - that eventually leads to the formation of medium-range structures and the recognition of some ionic liquids as composed of a high-charge density, cohesive network permeated by low-charge density regions.In this chapter, the structure of the ionic liquids will be explored and some of their consequences to the properties of ionic liquids analyzed.
Laboratoire Thermodynamique et Interactions Moléculaires, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand/CNRS, Aubière, France, Margarida.c.gomes@univ-bpclermont.fr.
Margarida F Costa
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Gomes
J N Canongia
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Lopes
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Padua
D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D012997:Solvents