Ionic Liquids: Science and Applications

Preface 1. Ionic Liquid Fuels for Chemical Propulsion Stefan Schneider, Tom Hawkins, Yonis Ahmed, Stephan Deplazes, and Jeff Mills 2. Ionic Liquids in Electrospray Propulsion Systems Benjamin D. Prince, Bruce A. Fritz, and Yu-Hui Chiu 3. Decomposition and Combustion of Ionic Liquid Compound Synthesized from N,N,N',N'-Tetramethylethylenediamine and Nitric Acid Shiqing Wang and Stefan T. Thynell 4. Ionic Liquid-Based Electrolytes for High Energy, Safer Lithium Batteries G. B. Appetecchi, M. Montanino, and S. Passerini 5. Development and Selection of Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Hydroxide Conducting Polybenzimidazole Membranes in Alkaline Fuel Cells Elise B. Fox, Hector R. Colon-Mercado, Yuanxin Chen, and W. S. Winston Ho 6. Natural Fiber Welding: Ionic Liquid Facilitated Biopolymer Mobilization and Reorganization Luke M. Haverhals, Matthew P. Foley, E. Kate Brown, Douglas M. Fox, Hugh C. De Long, and Paul C. Trulove 7. Advanced Biopolymer Composite Materials from Ionic Liquid Solutions Mirela L. Maxim, Jacqueline F. White, Leah E. Block, Gabriela Gurau, and Robin D. Rogers 8. Degradation of Chitin Utilizing Acid Functionalized Ionic Liquids Technology W. Matthew Reichert, Arsalan Mirjafari, James H. Davis Jr., Taylor Goodie, Nathan G. Williams, Vivian Ho, Matthew Yoder, and Maelynn La 9. Lipid-Inspired Ionic Liquids Containing Long-Chain Appendages: Novel Class of Biomaterials with Attractive Properties and Applications Arsalan Mirjafari, Richard A. O>'Brien, Samuel M. Murray, Kaila M. Mattson, Niloufar Mobarrez, Kevin N. West, and James H. Davis Jr. 10. Gas Solubility in Ionic Liquids: Mixed Gases in Pure Ionic Liquids and Single Gases in Binary Liquid Mixtures Dirk Tuma and Gerd Maurer 11. Ionic Liquids in Extractive Distillation of Ethanol/Water: From Laboratory to Pilot Plant G. Wytze Meindersma, Esteban Quijada-Maldonado, Tim A. M. Aelmans, Juan Pablo Gutierrez Hernandez, and Andre B. de Haan 12. Al2O3-Based Nanoparticle-Enhanced Ionic Liquids (NEILs) for Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids Ann E. Visser, Nicholas J. Bridges, Brenda L. Garcia-Diaz, Joshua R. Gray, and Elise B. Fox 13. OKE Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nonpolar and Polar Molecules in Ionic Liquids Edward L. Quitevis, Fehmi Bardak, Dong Xiao, Larry G. Hines, Jr., Pillhun Son, Richard A. Bartsch, Peng Yang, and Gregory A. Voth 14. Probing the Interface of Charged Surfactants in Ionic Liquids by XPS Lang G. Chen and Harry Bermudez Editors' Biographies Indexes Author Index Subject Index