Understanding the effect of pressure on ionic liquid structure

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There are few studies on the effect of pressure on ionic liquids; however, there are indications that, at pressures around 1.0 GPa, these systems undergo a significant change in their structure. We have examined a range of ionic liquids as a function of chain length at ambient pressure to explore the presence of microsegregated domains. Although not found at low pressure, it is possible that, as the liquid is pressurised, the domains proposed will form and an ordered structure akin to that found for the long alkyl chain length materials/liquid crystalline ionic liquids results. Neutron diffraction will be used to study the structure of 1-octyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate ionic liquids as a function of pressure. In order to probe the structure and facilitate the analysis of the data obtained, selective isotopic substitution on the ionic liquid cation will be used.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24085971
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24085971
Provenance
Creator Professor Chris Hardacre; Professor John Holbrey; Dr Tristan Youngs; Dr Filip Meersman; Dr Sarah Norman; Dr Haresh Manyar
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-05-31T12:43:35Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-06-05T13:38:35Z