Collaborative Research: Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids

该奖项由化学系化学结构、动力学和机理A （CSDM-A）项目资助，爱荷华大学的Claudio Margulis教授和新不伦瑞克罗格斯大学的Edward Castner教授及其研究生和本科生研究人员正在进行一项联合实验和理论项目，以研究一类有趣的材料（离子液体）的行为。这项工作的结果可以帮助科学家了解离子液体成分结构的微观变化是如何导致宏观行为的。这样的研究的希望是为这些潜在的有用物质在研究和工业过程中的应用开发一个工程框架。参与该项目的研究生和本科生将接受材料合成、x射线方法和理论方面的培训。该项目还将邀请昆斯伯勒社区学院的Sharon Lall-Ramnarine教授和她的学生参与研究。教授。马古利斯和卡斯特纳将联合开展一个理论和实验项目，研究一些新的离子液体，特别是非两亲性的离子液体。这两个小组将：(1)研究具有相同（8-mer）长度的正离子和阴离子侧链的离子液体的行为；(2)用理论方法研究具有硅基和硅氧基官能团的离子液体的行为；(3)离子液体与醚和烷基官能团的比较。为了这项工作，新的离子液体化合物将被合成，表面表征，x射线散射和x射线光电子能谱测量将在罗格斯大学和阿贡国家实验室的先进光子源进行。计算化学的工作将在马古利斯教授的小组中进行。该团队还包括昆斯伯勒社区学院（Queensborough Community College）的莎伦·拉尔-拉玛琳（Sharon Lall-Ramnarine）教授。昆斯伯勒社区学院是纽约市立大学系统中的一所少数族裔本科院校。Lall-Ramnarine教授将与她的一些化学学生一起研究这个项目。

In this award, funded by the Chemical Structure, Dynamics and Mechanisms A (CSDM-A) Program of the Division of Chemistry, Professors Claudio Margulis of the University of Iowa and Edward Castner of Rutgers University - New Brunswick and their graduate and undergraduate student researchers are working on a joint experimental and theoretical project to investigate the behavior of an interesting class of materials (ionic liquids). The results from this work could help scientists understand how microscopic changes to the structure of the ionic liquid constituents result in macroscopic behavior. The hope of studies like this is to develop a framework for engineering these potentially useful substances for use in research and industrial processes. Graduate and undergraduate students working on this project will receive training in materials synthesis, x-ray methods and theory. This project will also incorporate Prof. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine of Queensborough Community College and her students in the research. Profs. Margulis and Castner will conduct a joint theoretical and experimental program to investigate a number of new ionic liquids, especially non-amphiphilic ones. The two groups will: (1) study the behavior of ionic liquids with cationic and anionic side chains of the same (8-mer) length; (2) investigate with theoretical methods the behavior of ionic liquids with silyl and siloxy functionalities; and (3) compare ionic liquids with ether and alkyl functionalities. For this work, new ionic liquid compounds will be synthesized, surface characterization, x-ray scattering and x-ray photoelectrons spectroscopy measurements will be carried out at Rutgers University and the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory. Computational chemistry work will be carried out in the group of Prof. Margulis. The team also includes Prof. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine of Queensborough Community College, a minority serving undergraduate institution that is part of the CUNY system. Prof. Lall-Ramnarine will work on research in this project with some of her chemistry students.