Interfaces of Ionic Liquids (2)

Ionic Liquids Uncoiled: Critical Expert Overviews

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 51-85

  Hayes, Robert ^a   Wakeham, Deborah ^a   Atkin, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air ionic liquid interface, ionic liquid ions and low vapour pressure; Interfaces of ionic liquids (2), interfacial transition zone bulk liquid; Ionic liquid interface properties, in applications processes; Ionic liquid interfaces, three separate but related zones; Liquid ionic, ionic liquid stabilised microemulsion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886343171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118434987.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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