Collaborative Research: Ionic Liquid Structural Paradigms- Beyond Alkyl Tails

这一奖项由化学系化学结构、动力学和机理A(CSDM-A)计划资助，爱荷华大学的克劳迪奥·马古利斯教授和新不伦瑞克罗格斯大学的爱德华·卡斯特纳教授以及他们的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理解离子液体成分结构的微观变化如何导致宏观行为。这类研究的希望是开发一个框架，用于设计这些潜在有用的物质，用于研究和工业过程。从事这个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。该项目还将包括昆斯伯勒社区学院的莎伦·拉尔-拉姆纳林教授和她的学生参与研究。教授们。Marguis和Castner将进行一项联合理论和实验计划，以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-聚)长度的阳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；以及(3)比较具有乙醚和烷基官能团的离子液体的行为。在这项工作中，将合成新的离子液体化合物，将在罗格斯大学和阿贡国家实验室的高级光子源进行表面表征、X射线散射和X射线光电子能谱测量。计算化学工作将在Marguis教授小组中进行。该团队还包括昆斯伯勒社区学院的莎伦·拉尔-拉姆纳林教授，这是一所少数族裔服务的本科生机构，是纽约州立大学系统的一部分。拉尔-拉姆纳林教授将与她的一些化学学生一起进行这个项目的研究。

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.