Materials Centre at RSC Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussions

Dr Jake Yang, Dr Jennifer Hartley and Dr Chris Elgar (pictured left to right) attended the Royal Society of Chemistry's Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussions at Burlington House in London. Here, Jenny presented a talk on the paper 'Overcoming passivation through improved mass transport in dense ionic fluids' and Chris presented a poster and flash talk on 'Concentrated Aqueous Chloride Brines. How Different are They Anyway?'

According to Jenny:

"It was a great experience to take part in the Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussions conference at the Royal Society of Chemistry this week, and present our work on 'Overcoming passivation through improved mass transport in dense ionic fluids'. Over the past few days we heard many exciting talks on chemistry in a wide range of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents."

According to Chris:

"Such a fantastic experience of my first Faraday Discussions at Royal Society of Chemistry this week, presenting our work on Dense Ionic Liquids and forced convection for increased metal dissolution rates. Some fascinating discussions all around!"

Full paper reference:

Evangelia Daskalopoulou, Philip Hunt, Christopher E Elgar, Minjun Yang, Andrew P. Abbott, Jennifer M. Hartley "Overcoming passivation through improved mass transport in dense ionic fluids", Faraday Discussions, 2024, 253, 329-342.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4FD00030G

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Faraday Institution (Faraday Institution grant code FIRG027, project website https://relib.org.uk), the UKRI Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals, Met4Tech project (EP/V011855/1), NERC CENTA2 grant NE/S007350/1, the EPSRC SonoCat project (EP/W018632/1), and Johnson Matthey for funding this work.