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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
Mesoscopic organization in ionic liquids
Olga Russina1, Fabrizio Lo Celso2, Natalia Plechkova3
1Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
We discuss some published results and provide new observations concerning the high level of structural complexity that lies behind the nanoscale correlations in ionic liquids (ILs) and their mixtures with molecular liquids. It turns out that this organization is a consequence of the hierarchical construction on both spatial (from ångström to several nanometer) and temporal (from fraction of picosecond to hundreds of nanosecond) scales, which requires joint use of experimental and computational tools.
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