Docampo-Álvarez Borja, Gómez-González Víctor, Méndez-Morales Trinidad, Rodríguez Julio R, Cabeza Oscar, Turmine Mireille, Gallego Luis J, Varela Luis M
Grupo de Nanomateriales, Fotónica y Materia Blanda, Departamento de Física de Partículas, Facultade de Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida s/n, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2018 Apr 18;20(15):9938-9949. doi: 10.1039/c8cp00575c.
Mixtures of alkylammonium based protic ionic liquids and alkylmethylimidazolium based aprotic ionic liquids were studied by means of molecular dynamics simulations. Close to ideal mixing is observed in most studied magnitudes; however, the effect of increasing alkyl chain length in each of the cations is markedly different, with longer protic cations showing larger deviations, especially with regards to mixing enthalpy, which exhibits a strong compound forming tendency. The compound forming nature of these protic ionic liquids is shown to induce sharp changes in their local environment upon mixing.
