Vibrational spectroscopy has continued use as a powerful tool to characterize ionic liquids since the literature on room temperature molten salts experienced the rapid increase in number of publications in the 1990's. In the past years, infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopies have provided insights on ionic interactions and the resulting liquid structure in ionic liquids. A large body of informa...

Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are comprised of bulky organic cations and anions (Holbrey & Seddon, 1999; Weingärtner, 2008). Because of the intricate interplay of various interand intramolecular interactions, RTILs have rich dynamical properties and have found diverse applications. In particular, negligible vapor pressure of RTILs makes them a green alternative of conventional organic ...

The gas sensing potential of the 9CB (4-cyano-4′-nonylbiphenyl) liquid crystal compound at ambient conditions is investigated. solid room temperature incorporated in a hybrid gel formulation ionic liquid/liquid droplets immobilized gelatin matrix. Several liquids are tested order to tackle crystallization and also 9CB-based mixture with different smectogen considered. resulting demonstrates gre...