Ionic Liquids Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom 22-24 August 2011

This volume discusses fundamental experimental and theoretical aspects of the physical chemistry of room-temperature ionic liquids. Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are currently the focus of an intense research effort because of their remarkable potential for applications coupled to favourable environmental properties. On a more fundamental level, RTILs constitute an important class of highly correlated Coulomb fluids whose molecular constituents are complex ions with tunable shape and size. The hybrid organic- ionic nature of RTILs and the resulting interplay between different intermolecular forces give rise to a complex phenomenology whose decoding requires the close integration of experimental, theoretical and computational methods. In this volume the topics covered include: oThermodynamics and phase behaviour of ionic fluids oMicroscopic and mesoscopic structure: experiments and simulations oTransport and relaxation in ionic liquids oChemical reactivity and interfacial behaviour