What is it about?
The properties of ionic liquids, which determine their suitability for many applications, may be tuned by changing their composition. These observations are critical in the small cluster size regime where phenomena do not scale predictably to the bulk phase, and each atom counts toward determining behavior.
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Why is it important?
Ionic liquids have applications in chemical separations, space propulsion, energy storage, catalysis, electrochemistry, and as designer/green solvents.
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We use distinguishing mass spectrometry and spectroscopy capabilities at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to investigate how the composition of ionic liquid clusters determines their behavior.
Grant Johnson
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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This page is a summary of: Influence of counterion substitution on the properties of imidazolium-based ionic liquid clusters, The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2025, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0251314.
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