Alkyl chain length and temperature effects on structural properties of pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids: A combined atomistic simulation and small-angle x-ray scattering study

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-130

  Li, Song ^a   Bañuelos, José Leobardo ^b   Guo, Jianchang ^b   Anovitz, Lawrence ^b   Rother, Gernot ^b   Shaw, Robert W ^b   Hillesheim, Patrick C ^b   Dai, Sheng ^b   Baker, Gary A ^c   Cummings, Peter T ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL CHAIN; ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; ALL-ATOM MODEL; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHANE SULFONYL)IMIDE; FIRST SHARP DIFFRACTION PEAK; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; PARTIAL PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTION; POLAR GROUPS; PYRROLIDINIUM-BASED IONIC LIQUID; Q-VALUES; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING PEAK; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

CHAIN LENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; X RAY SCATTERING;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84855471368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz2013209     Document Type: Article

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