QUILL 25
We are delighted to invite you to a conference on the Applications of Ionic Fluids, organised jointly by the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group (MSILDG) and the QUILL Research Centre.
The meeting is taking place on the 2-3 September 2024 at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, to celebrate 25 years of the QUILL Research Centre, taking place in conjunction with the 2024 MSILDG Summer Research Meeting.
This conference is a two-day celebration of the scientific advancements and applied technologies in the areas of ionic fluids: ionic liquids, molten salts, eutectic solvents, and other advanced liquid media. We are looking forward to welcoming talks and posters on any applications of broadly defined ionic fluids, both from longstanding friends and collaborators of QUILL and MSILDG, as well as new researchers from all related communities and disciplines.
We have a fantastic line-up of four excellent keynote speakers:
- Margarida Costa Gomes, ENS Lyon
- Agi Brandt-Talbot, Imperial College London
- David Mecerreyes, POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country
- Andrew Abbott (Fray Lecturer), University of Leicester
We particularly welcome contributions from early career researchers, including flash talks by PhD students, as well as poster contributions.
Topics to be covered:
- Materials for health
- Energy storage
- Energy generation and electrocatalysis
- Biomass processing
- Circular economy
- Separations and sensing
- Other applications
We are also very pleased to announce that RSC Sustainability will publish a QUILL25-MSILDG Special Issue! All presenters (talks and posters) will be invited to contribute a manuscript, subject to a regular review process by the journal, with 15 February 2025 submission deadline
Key dates:
- Abstract submission opening date: 1st May 2024
- Abstract submission closing date: 2nd August 2024
- Registration closing date: 26th August 2024
Please email your abstract to quill@qub.ac.uk
Registration fees
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Registration fees |
Standard registration Closes 26th August 2024 |
|
RSC member |
£160 |
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Non-RSC member |
£190 |
There are RSC bursaries available to aid attendance by Early Career Researchers.
The conference fee includes:
- Attendance at the conference
- Lunch and refreshments on both days
- Drinks reception (Monday night)
- Dinner in the Great Hall (Monday night)
- Poster session (including refreshments)
On the Sunday before the conference, you can opt in for a tour of the excellent Titanic Museum Belfast (£21.95), located in the dock area, right where the ship was built. On the Wednesday after the conference, you can also opt in for a walking tour of Belfast (£15.00), showcasing its prominent role in the industrial revolution and its troubled political past. These activities are charged separately, at a conference discount price. More details can be found in the section below.
Organising committee:
- George Chen
- Gosia Swadźba-Kwaśny
- Ian McPherson
- Leila Moura
- Agi Brandt-Talbot
- Josh Bailey
| Monday 2nd September | |
|---|---|
| 09:45 - 10:20 |
Tea/Coffee (Canada Room) |
| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Welcome and Sponsor talks (Council Chamber) |
| 10:40 – 11:20 |
Anton Paar Keynote - Margarida Costa Gomes (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) (Council Chamber) Three Approaches to Choose an Ionic Solvent – Revisited |
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11:20 – 11:40 |
Haresh Manyar (QUILL) (Council Chamber) Glycerol Derived Fuel Additives: From Process Optimisation to Technoeconomic Feasibility |
| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Safwan Salam (Petronas) (Council Chamber) COSMO-RS-Based Screening of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents for Efficient Direct Air Capture |
| 12:00 – 12:20 |
Shuoshuo Zhang (University of St Andrews) (Council Chamber) Molten Lithium Carbonate Corrosion on SiC Heating Elements: Insights and Investigation on Protective Coatings |
| 12:20 – 13:20 | Lunch (Great Hall) |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Flash talks (Council Chamber) |
| 13:40 – 14:20 |
Keynote – David Mecerreyes (POLYMAT University of the Basque Country) (Council Chamber) From Poly(Ionic Liquid)s to PolyDES and New Applications for Ionic Polymers |
| 14:20 – 14:40 |
Andreas Taubert (University of Potsdam) (Council Chamber) Having Fun With Zwitterions: From Hydrogels to Ionic Liquid Crystals |
| 14:40 – 15:00 |
Emma McCrea (QUILL) (Council Chamber) Methanolysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Using Protic Ionic Liquids |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Tea/Coffee (Canada Room) |
| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Aloisia King (QUILL) (Council Chamber) Manipulating Cation Lewis Acidity to Create Functional Ionic Liquid Systems |
| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Lars Rehmann (University of Western Ontario) (Council Chamber) Ionic Liquid Mediated Recovery from Lipids from Oleaginous Microorganisms |
| 16:10 – 16:30 |
Leila Moura (QUILL) (Council Chamber) Impact of the Presence of Cyano Groups in the Solubility of Ethane and Ethylene in Ionic Liquids |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Poster Session (South Dining Hall) |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Reception & Dinner (Naughton Gallery & Great Hall) |
| 21:00 – 21:30 | After-dinner talk – Prof Paul Davey History of QUILL (Great Hall) |
| Tuesday 3rd September | |
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| 09:00 - 09:40 |
Keynote – Agi Brandt-Talbot (Imperial College London) (Council Chamber) Applications of Ionic Liquids in Biorefining |
| 09:40 – 10:00 |
Matt Panzer (Tufts University) (Council Chamber) Who’s in Charge? Polyzwitterion Scaffolds for Ionogel Electrolytes |
| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Ruwaida Asyikin Abu Talip (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS) (Council Chamber) Effect of Deuteration Towards Physical, Chemical and Electrochemical Properties of BMIM Triflate Ionic Liquids |
| 10:20 – 10:50 |
Tea/Coffee (Canada Room) |
| 10:50 – 11:10 |
Sanskrita Madhukailya (QUILL) (Council Chamber) LCST Phase Behaviour Via Structured Design of Ionic Liquids |
| 11:10 – 11:30 |
Christian Balischewski (University of Potsdam) (Council Chamber) Elucidating the Iron-Based Ionic Liquid [C4py][FeCl4]: Structural Insights and Potential for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries |
| 11:30 – 11:50 |
Luis Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) (Council Chamber) Ionic Liquids for Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Applications |
| 11:50 – 12:10 |
Haris Amir (QUILL) (Council Chamber) The Synthesis and Characterisation of Borate Anions for Functional Applications |
| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Alberto Puga (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) (Council Chamber) How Wet Was My Liquid! Carboxylate Hydrates For CO2 Capture |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch (Great Hall) |
| 13:30 – 13:50 |
Eduards Bakis (University of Latvia) (Council Chamber) Designing Ionic Liquids as Charge Transfer Complexes |
| 13:50 – 14:10 |
Giovanni Pireddu (NAAREA) (Council Chamber) Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Molten Actinide Chlorides |
| 14:10 – 14:30 |
Hector Rodriguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) (Council Chamber) Ionic Liquids and Salt-Containing Eutectic Solvents for the Valorisation of Waste from Food Processing Industries: A Couple of Examples |
| 14:30 – 14:50 |
Jose (Pepe) Palomar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (Council Chamber) Carbon Capture and Conversion Thermodynamics: How to Promote Process Efficiency? |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Tea/Coffee (Canada Room) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 |
Jean Le Bideau (Nantes Université) (Council Chamber) Enhanced Li+, Mg2+ and Zn2+ Diffusion at the Polymer–Ionic Liquid Interface within Ionogel |
| 15:40 – 16:00 |
Bamidele (Dele) Akinwolemiwa (University of Nottingham) (Council Chamber) Design Considerations for Dissolved Na-ion in Ionic Liquid for Supercapatteries |
| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Coby J Clarke (University of Nottingham) (Council Chamber) Linking Molecular Scale Interactions to Macroscopic Properties in Metal Ionogels |
| 16:20 – 17:00 |
Fray Lecture - Andy Abbott (University of Leicester) (Council Chamber) Past and Future Applications of Deep Eutectic Solvents |
| 17:00 | Presentation prizes (Council Chamber) |
Three Approaches Three Approaches to Choose an Ionic Solvent – Revisited
Ionic liquids, composed of large, flexible, and asymmetric ions with delocalized electrostatic charges, represent a vast and varied family of liquids, each with distinct chemical structures and interactions. This intrinsic diversity leads to remarkable properties, making them highly attractive as solvents or absorbers. However, the rational design of an ionic liquid tailored to specific properties remains a significant challenge. This presentation revisits three crucial considerations in the selection of ionic solvents: (1) Favorable solute-solvent interactions, whether physical or chemical, are essential in determining solubility and selectivity. (2) The microscopic structure of the solvent directly influences the entropy of solvation, thereby dictating the absorption mechanisms. (3) The difficulty of achieving efficient mass transport underscores the importance of using mixtures of ions or balancing chemistry with free volume to optimize performance...
From Poly(Ionic Liquid)s to PolyDES and New Applications for Ionic Polymers
In this lecture, we will review our recent activities in the synthesis, characterization and applications of new ionic polymers. First, several examples on the synthesis of poly(ionic liquid)s will be shown. The application of those poly(ionic liquid)s in batteries will be explained showing examples of its use as polymer electrolytes in lithium and sodium batteries as well as polymer binders in high voltage cathodes. Second, a novel family of multifunctional deep eutectic monomers based on polyphenols and the corresponding polymers will be discussed. Phenolic chemistry allows modulating molecular interactions tuning the ionic polymer properties from soft adhesive to tough materials. Pyrogallol and hydrocaffeic acid-derived ionic polymers showed outstanding adhesiveness. Additionally, phenolic polymeric deep eutectic solvents (polyDES) featured metal complexation ability, anticorrosion properties and fast processability by digital light 3D printing for bioelectronic applications.
Application of Ionic Liquids in Biorefining
Ionic liquids are versatile solvents that have shown promise in several applications, including biorefining. Defossilising the chemical industry is increasingly important as society transitions from fossil resource dependence to responsible utilisation of renewable and circular raw materials. Biomass is already an important feedstock materials and chemicals; however, better and new processes must be developed to fully exploit the potential and provide the diverse range of products and services that we are accustomed to or aspire to. Ionic liquids can play a role in biorefining due to their strong interactions with biopolymers such as polysaccharides and lignin. In this talk, the journey of developing a wood fractionation process using low-cost ionic liquids is followed from the lab to pilot scale and how the research has inspired additional sustainable ionic liquid applications, in particular, lignin carbon fibre spinning. ...
Past and Future Applications of Deep Eutectic Solvents
From very humble beginnings in 1999, the topic of deep eutectic solvents has come a long way with tens of thousands of papers now in the field. This presentation reviews the inventive process behind these fluids and some of the applications for which they have been used. It also questions many of the assumptions about the limitations of dense ionic fluids and points the direction in which future research could be focussed. Most importantly it questions whether there is a difference between ionic liquids, DESs and aqueous brine solutions.
Located beside the Titanic Slipways, the Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices and Hamilton Graving Dock – the very place where Titanic was designed, built, and launched, Titanic Belfast tells the story of Titanic from her conception, through her construction and launch, to her maiden voyage and subsequent place in history.
The building was designed as a 4 point star (legacy of the white star line) and shaped as ship prow culminating at 126 feet height (same as the Titanic's hull). The activity is on Sunday, September 1st 2024.
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This West Belfast walking tour visits the Catholic Falls Road and Protestant Shankill Road. It explains the Troubles and peace process with stops at the famous murals, memorial gardens, and peacewalls between the two communities. It typically lasts 2.5 hours and the distance covered is usually between 1.5 and 2 miles.
This activity is on Wednesday, September 4th 2024.
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