Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids (PDF)

For many years, the related fields of molten salts and ionic
liquids have drifted apart, to their mutual detriment. Both molten
salts and ionic liquids are liquid salts containing only ions - all
that is different is the temperature! Both fields involve the study
of Coulombic fluids for academic and industrial purposes; both
employ the same principles; both require skilled practitioners;
both speak the same language; all then that is truly different is
their semantics, and how superficial is that?

The editors of this book, recognising that there was so much
knowledge, both empirical and theoretical, which can be passed from
the molten salt community to the ionic liquid community, and vice
versa, organised a landmark meeting in Tunisia, designed to bridge
the gap and heal the rift. Leaders from both communities met for a
week for a mutual exchange, with a high tutorial content intermixed
with cutting edge findings. This volume is a condensate of
the principal offerings of that week, and emphasises the success
which was achieved. Indeed, four future biannual meetings,
under the title of "EUCHEM Conferences on Molten Salts and
Ionic Liquids", have now been planned as a direct result of
this meeting of minds.

Topics discussed in this volume include structure, dynamics,
electrochemistry, interfacial and thermodynamic properties,
spectroscopy, synthesis, and theoretical studies. Experimental and
theoretical methods for investigating these data are elaborated, as
are techniques for data collection and analysis. This book
represents the first serious discussion on the transfer of these
methods and techniques between the differing temperature regimes,
and is a major contribution to the future of both fields.