OE60 Computational Design of Aprotic Heterocyclic Anions (AHAs) for Ionic-Liquid-Based CO2 Separations

Thursday, June 9, 2011: 1:50 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 2 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
William F. Schneider1, Elaine Mindrup2 and Chao Wu2, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, (2)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
New materials with high capacity, tunable affinity, and high selectivity towards CO2 are essential for economical CO2 capture. We report the computational design and experimental realization of a new class of ionic liquids with physical and chemical properties precisely tailored to the CO2 capture problem.

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