Faraday Discussion 154: Ionic Liquids
22 – 24 August 2011
Belfast, UK
Deadline for Oral Abstracts: 22 October 2010
Submit yout abstract now to events@rsc.org
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are currently the focus of an intense research effort because of their remarkable potential for applications coupled to favourable environmental properties. The hybrid organic-ionic nature of RTILs and the resulting interplay between different intermolecular forces give rise to a complex phenomenology whose decoding requires the close integration of experimental, theoretical and computational methods.
Ionic liquids constitute a new and exciting playground for interdisciplinary research and this meeting will discuss fundamental experimental and theoretical aspects of the physical chemistry of RTILs. The Scientific Committee will be chaired by Professor Chris Hardacre (Queen’s University Belfast, UK).
Themes:
- Thermodynamics and phase behavior of ionic fluids
- Microscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations
- Transport and relaxation in ionic liquids
- Chemical reactivity and interfacial behavior
Confirmed Invited speakers:
- Austen Angell (Introductory) – Arizona State University, USA
- Ruth Lynden-Bell (Closing) – University of Cambridge, UK
- Pietro Ballone – Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
- Margarida Costa-Gomes – Université Blaise-Pascal, France
- Douglas MacFarlane – Monash University, Australia
- Edward Maginn – University of Notre Dame, USA
- Athanassios Panagiotopoulos – Princeton University, USA
- Alessandro Triolo – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
- Hermann Weingärtner – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
- James Wishart – Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Submit an abstract for an oral presentation by 22nd October 2010 to events@rsc.org adding ‘FD154 abstract’ in the subject line.
For further information on attending Faraday Discussion 154, visit www.rsc.org/FD154.
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