Conveners
Topical Session 2: Chemistry
- Tilo Soehnel (The University of Auckland)
Ionic liquids (ILs) are molten salts at room temperature. ILs possess remarkable physio-chemical properties including high solubility of compounds that are otherwise insoluble in molecular solvents. One important application is the dissolution of lignin during pretreatment of biomass. Previous studies have shown low-cost and biocompatible ILs containing cholinium as the cation and an amino...
Many different electrolytes with perovskite and fluorite-type structures have been extensively explored and characterised. Minimal focus has been given to potential Bixbyite-type electrolytes. A ternary copper antimony oxide previously referred to as Cu9Sb4O19 with an unresolved crystal structure looked like a promising candidate to study. This was synthesised using classic solid state...
It is often assumed that a hydrophobic drug will be entrapped in the hydrophobic environment of a micelle. Little attention is usually drawn to the actual location of the drug and the effect of the drug on properties. In this publication, we show how the chosen drug curcumin is not only unexpectedly located in the shell of the micelle, but that the accumulation in the hydrophilic block can...
Analysis of hydrogen-containing molecules via neutron scattering analyses often benefits from the substitution of hydrogen with deuterium atoms, since hydrogen (protium) and deuterium have different scattering length densities (SLDs). Selective replacement of protium for deuterium in multi-component systems allows the scattering from individual components to be observed in isolation. For this...
