New technological advances require new types of materials. For example, currently there is no economical technology for capturing carbon dioxide released from power plants. We have recently invented a new type of material, called a porous liquid. As its name implies, this material is a liquid which contains tiny microscopic holes, each about the size of a single molecule. The liquid can absorb large amounts of gas into these holes. Therefore, we hope that such a material might ultimately help to solve problems such as carbon capture. Before we can find applications for this new type of material, we need to understand it in more detail. For example we need to know exactly how the gas molecules are distributed throughout the liquid. The experiments that we will perform will tell us this information which will help in the process of developing these materials towards applications.