title: Pressure-induced mesoscopic disorder in protic ionic liquids: first computational study.
abstract: It has been recently shown that pressure may affect the mesoscopic heterogeneity in aprotic ionic liquids, owing to the long alkyl chain folding on itself. Here we explore protic ionic liquids, using classical molecular dynamics. These compounds have shorter and stiffer alkyl chains, harder to fold. We observed that high pressure affects the mesoscopic structure of the studied chemicals and, indeed, the effect may be ascribed to chain folding.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. alessandro.mariani@uniroma1.it ruggero.caminiti@uniroma1.it marco.campetella@uniroma1.it lorenzo.gontrani@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mariani
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. alessandro.mariani@uniroma1.it ruggero.caminiti@uniroma1.it marco.campetella@uniroma1.it lorenzo.gontrani@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Caminiti
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. alessandro.mariani@uniroma1.it ruggero.caminiti@uniroma1.it marco.campetella@uniroma1.it lorenzo.gontrani@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campetella
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy. alessandro.mariani@uniroma1.it ruggero.caminiti@uniroma1.it marco.campetella@uniroma1.it lorenzo.gontrani@uniroma1.it.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gontrani