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Charl J. Jafta

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Direct experimental observation of mesoscopic fluorous domains in fluorinated room temperature ionic liquids

2017

Fluorinated room temperature ionic liquids (FRTILs) represent a class of solvent media that are attracting great attention due to their IL-specific properties as well as features stemming from their fluorous nature. Medium-to-long fluorous tails constitute a well-defined apolar moiety in the otherwise polar environment. Similarly to the case of alkyl tails, such chains are expected to result in the formation of self-assembled fluorous domains. So far, however, no direct experimental observation has been made of the existence of such structural heterogeneities on the nm scale. We report here the first experimental evidence of the existence of mesoscopic spatial segregation of fluorinated dom…

General Physics and AstronomyNanotechnology02 engineering and technologyNeutron scattering010402 general chemistryLAYER CAPACITOR APPLICATIONS; PERFLUOROALKYL SIDE-CHAINS; ANGLE NEUTRON-SCATTERING; PARTICLE MESH EWALD; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FORCE-FIELD; CATION SYMMETRY; STRUCTURAL-CHARACTERIZATION; AMMONIUM TETRAFLUOROBORATE; MOLECULAR SIMULATION01 natural sciencesionic liquidsionic liquids SANS nanostructuration fluorous domains NMR NOEchemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsPhysics and Astronomy (all)nanostructurationMoietyPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryAlkylNOEchemistry.chemical_classificationfluorous domainsMesoscopic physicsSANSNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyNMR0104 chemical sciencesfluorinated ionic liquids neutron scattering x-ray diffraction structurechemistryChemical physicsIonic liquidPolar0210 nano-technology
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Mesoscopic structural organization in fluorinated room temperature ionic liquids

2018

The presence of fluorous tails in room-temperature ionic liquids imparts new properties to their already rich spectrum of appealing features. The interest towards this class of compounds that are of ionic nature with melting point less than 25 degrees C is accordingly growing; in particular, compounds bearing relatively long fluorous tails have begun to be considered. In this invited presentation, we show recent results arising from the systematic study of structural properties of a series of fluorinated room temperature ionic liquids, with growing fluorous chain length. At odd with the current understanding of this class of compounds, we show experimentally that they are characterized by t…

Materials scienceGeneral Chemical EngineeringIonic bondingNeutronNeutron scatteringIonic liquid010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesX-raychemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsSettore CHIM/020103 physical sciencesFluorouMesoscopicChemical Engineering (all)Nanoscopic scaleFluorous; Ionic liquid; Mesoscopic; Neutron; Self-assembly; X-ray; Chemistry (all); Chemical Engineering (all)Mesoscopic physics010304 chemical physicsChemistry (all)General ChemistrySelf-assembly0104 chemical sciencesFluorous; Ionic liquid; X-ray; Neutron; Mesoscopic; Self-assemblychemistryChemical physicsIonic liquidMelting pointFluorousSelf-assembly
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Mesoscopic organization in ionic liquids.

2017

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. © 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Ionic LiquidsNanotechnology02 engineering and technologyIonic liquidMolecular Dynamics Simulation010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesMesoscopic and microscopic structurechemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsX-ray and neutron scattering;Molecular dynamics simulation;Ionic liquid;Mesoscopic and microscopic structureAngstromNanoscopic scaleMesoscopic physicsChemistry (all)X-ray and neutron scatteringGeneral ChemistryNanosecond021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology0104 chemical sciencesIonic liquid; Mesoscopic and microscopic structure; Molecular dynamics simulation; X-ray and neutron scattering.chemistryChemical physicsPicosecondIonic liquid0210 nano-technologyTopics in current chemistry (Cham)
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Nanoscale organization in the fluorinated room temperature ionic liquid: Tetraethyl ammonium (trifluoromethanesulfonyl)(nonafluorobutylsulfonyl)imide

2018

Fluorinated Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (FRTILs) are a branch of ionic liquids that is the object of growing interest for a wide range of potential applications, due to the synergic combination of specifically ionic features and those properties that stem from fluorous tails. So far limited experimental work exists on the micro-and mesoscopic structural organization in this class of compounds. Such a work is however necessary to fully understand morphological details at atomistic level that would have strong implications in terms of bulk properties. Here we use the synergy between X-ray and neutron scattering together with molecular dynamics simulations to access structural details of a …

Materials scienceGeneral Physics and AstronomyIonic bondingfluorinated02 engineering and technologyNeutron scattering010402 general chemistry01 natural sciencesIonionic liquidsPhysics and Astronomy (all)chemistry.chemical_compoundMolecular dynamicsneutronSettore CHIM/02Side chainstructurePhysical and Theoretical ChemistryAlkylionic liquidchemistry.chemical_classificationMesoscopic physics021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology0104 chemical sciencesx-raychemistryChemical physicsIonic liquidionic liquids; fluorinated; structure0210 nano-technologyThe Journal of Chemical Physics
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