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Symposium BBB: Functional Materials and Ionic Liquids

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Functional Materials and Ionic Liquids

Solvents are ubiquitous in the synthesis and fabrication of functional materials, providing solvation media for chemicals. The most common media for conducting chemical reactions and materials synthesis are aqueous and organic solvents. Alternatively, the synthesis of functional materials using, or in the presence of, ionic liquids represents a burgeoning direction in materials chemistry. Ionic liquids are a family of unconventional molten salts that can act as templates and precursors to functional materials and nanostructures, as well as solvents. They offer many advan-tages, such as negligible vapor pressures, wide liquidus ranges, good thermal stability, tunable solubility for both organic and inorganic molecules, and much synthetic flexibility. New synthesis methods use ionic liquids as smart solvents in the preparation of nanoparticles with a controlled size and shape, mesoporous support materials with tailored pore sizes and interfaces, and functional carbon materials with nanoscale architectures. Another important aspect of using ionic liquids in materials technologies is to make use of their molecular defined nature and their extremely low vapor pressure to modify the chemical and physicochemical properties of solid surfaces by ionic liquid coatings. Such SILP (Supported Ionic Liquid Phase) materials have attracted steeply growing interest for catalytic application and in gas-cleaning technologies.

In addition to the broad impact that using ionic liquids as solvents has on the synthesis of functional materials, they are also under intense investigation for use as advanced electrolytes in modern energy conversion and storage. Synthesizing ionic liquids with wide electrochemical windows and high ion conductivities, or examining the dependence of ion-transport properties on their molecular structures, becomes paramount in the development of advanced batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors. This symposium aims to bring together experts in ionic liquids, functional materials, and energy conversion, and storage for cross-fertilizations between these fields. Abstracts are encouraged that address 1) state-of-the-art applications of ionic liquids as solvents for synthesizing functional materials, and 2) fabrication and integration of ionic liquids as advanced electrolytes for energy conversion and storage.

Experimental and theoretical modeling contributions are solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

 

• Synthesis of organic and inorganic materials and nanomaterials in ionic liquids
• Fundamental chemical and physical properties of ionic liquids
• Design and synthesis of ionic liquids with specific functions
• Advanced electrolytes based on ionic liquids
• Integrated design of catalytic nanomaterials
• Theory and modeling of ionic liquids
• Ionic liquids for biofuels, batteries, solar cells, and fuel cells
• Long-term prospects and scale-up challenges

Invited speakers include:

Austen Angell (Arizona State Univ.), Markus Antonietti (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany), Rob Atkin (Univ. of Newcastle, Australia), Jairton DuPont (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Yury Gogotsi (Drexel Univ.), Doug MacFarlane (Monash Univ., Australia), Anja Mudring (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany), Hiroyuki  Ohno (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), Matthew Reichert (Univ. of South Alabama), Tsukasa Torimoto (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Paul Trulove (U. S. Naval Academy).

Symposium Organizers

Sheng Dai
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chemical Sciences Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Tel 865-576-7307, Fax 865-576-5235
dais@ornl.gov 

Timothy P. Lodge
University of Minnesota, Dept. of Chemistry
207 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel 612-625-0877
lodge@umn.edu 

Robin D. Rogers
The University of Alabama
Center for Green Manufacturing
Dept. of Chemistry, Box 870336
3006D Shelby Hall
250 Hackberry Lane
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Tel 205-348-4323
rdrogers@as.ua.edu 

Peter Wasserscheid
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Tel 49-9131-85-27420
peter.wasserscheid@crt.cbi.uni-erlangen.de 

Masayoshi Watanabe
Yokohama National University
Dept. of Chemistry and Biotechnology
Hodogaya Ku
79-5 Tokiwadai, Yokohama
Kanagawa 2408501, Japan
Tel 81-45-339-3955
mwatanab@ynu.ac.jp