Symposium on the Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids
239th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Physical Division
21-25 March 2010
San Francisco, California, USA
Organizers: Edward W. Castner, Jr. (Rutgers, ed.castner@rutgers.edu) and James F. Wishart (BNL, wishart@bnl.gov)
Ionic liquids are experiencing explosive growth in many areas of research and practical applications. They present a wide range of complex physical and chemical behaviors, including ambient vapor pressures ranging from UHV to weakly volatile, a substantial variety of distinct condensed phases, including multiple crystal isomorphs, glasses, amorphous plastic and liquid crystal phases, deep supercooling, and interesting dynamical and transport phenomena. Experiments and simulations have shown that their intrinsic self-organization at the nanoscale is responsible for several of these properties. The symposium will assemble an international array of speakers to discuss ionic liquids in the context of their heterogeneous environments, solvation, dynamics and transport, interfacial properties, and the fundamentals of chemical reactivity in these systems.
The symposium will span the length of the ACS meeting from Sunday the 21st to Thursday the 25th with the exception of both sessions on Tuesday, which are reserved for the PHYS Divisional Awards symposia.