Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids: Never the Twain?

Molten salts and ionic liquids have been drawing increasing interest because of their suitability for various applications in areas such as chemistry, electrochemistry, materials science, and more.

This important new work presents twenty-six chapters contributed by a panel of experts in their respective fields, covering the structure, dynamics, chemistry, and interfacial and thermodynamic properties of molten salts and ionic liquids. Readers will gain a solid understanding of the similarities and differences between the two categories of materials in terms of properties, experimental and theoretical methods for investigating these properties, techniques for data collection and analysis, and various applications.

This book is a valuable resource for any academic or industrial chemist using, or contemplating using, molten salts or ionic liquids. It is also an excellent reference for chemists in academia, research, and industry, as well as graduate students in related disciplines.

Kenneth R. Seddon is a professor in the School of Chemistry at the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, since 1993. Professor Seddon is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry since 1993 and director of QUILL (Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories) since 1999. Professor Seddon’s Research Interests include green chemistry, crystal engineering, ionic liquids for clean technology, phosgene, coordination chemistry and conservation of pre-tenth Century Chinese paper.?He holds a B.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool, UK and MA (1974) from the University of Oxford, UK.