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Top Curr Chem (Cham). 2017 Jun;375(3):58. doi: 10.1007/s41061-017-0147-2. Epub 2017 May 17.

Mesoscopic organization in ionic liquids.

Topics in current chemistry (Cham)

Olga Russina, Fabrizio Lo Celso, Natalia Plechkova, Charl J Jafta, Giovanni Battista Appetecchi, Alessandro Triolo

Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
  2. Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  3. QUILL, The Queen's University of Belfast, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
  4. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, Berlin, Germany.
  5. Department SSPT-PROMAS-MATPRO, ENEA, 00123, Rome, Italy.
  6. Laboratorio Liquidi Ionici, Istituto Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy. [email protected].

PMID: 28516337 DOI: 10.1007/s41061-017-0147-2

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.

Keywords: Ionic liquid; Mesoscopic and microscopic structure; Molecular dynamics simulation; X-ray and neutron scattering

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