A5072129057- Ionic liquids properties and applications
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
- Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
- Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
- Magnetism in coordination complexes
- Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
- Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
Imperial College London
2020-2024
Molecular Sciences Institute
2021
National Technical University of Athens
2017-2020
A green approach for the encapsulation of Mentha pulegium essential oil in commercial baker's yeast and its evaluation as a pesticide against insect pest Myzus persicae are presented. Upon treating aqueous cell dispersion with oil, formation essential-oil-loaded microparticles about 9 μm is observed, loading capacity ranging from 29 to 36%, depending upon conditions. The thermal properties were characterized using differential scanning calorimetry thermogravimetric analysis, confirming...
In this work natural deep eutectic solvents are explored as versatile plasticisers for the formation of chitosan-stabilised films.
Understanding the structure-property relationship and nanoscopic behaviour of ionic liquids is utmost importance for their potential applications. Focusing these studies on sets homobaric could provide important insight into effects specific chemical groups overall interaction profile, bringing researchers one step closer to succesfully designing which are tailor-made This work focuses with 12 total carbons side chains, studying both bulk physical properties (such as densities viscosities)...
This work examines the effect of different functional groups on physical properties a series homobaric alkylimidazolium ionic liquids.
Targeted modifications of the 1 : 2 Choline-and-geranate (CAGE) structure promote formation room-temperature ionic liquid crystals.
The impact of ionic liquids (ILs) on polar reactions is well recognised, however the ILs non-polar less understood or explored. Pericyclic Cope rearrangements are highly concerted, exhibit minimal charge localisation and pass through an uncharged but well-defined transition state, thus provide a good mechanism for exploring IL polarizability chemical reactivity. Recently, 10× rate enhancement has been observed rearrangement 3-phenyl-1,5-hexadiene in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium...
A series of alkyl chain containing, asymmetric, homoleptic Fe( ii ) compounds with formula [Fe II (LC n 2 ](X) where = 4, 14 and X BF 4 (1C4 1C14) or 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 CF 3 SO (1C6–1C12 1C16), are reported.
Ionic liquids have been shown to form extended ordered structures near surfaces and in bulk. Identifying fundamental driving force(s) for this organization has elusive. In paper, we test a hypothesis that the ionic liquid asymmetry, inherent many of IL formulations frustrate crystallization, is significant contributor observed ordering. We carried out measurements track ordering composed "spherical" cations, namely, tetraoctylphosphonium ([P8888]) tetra(propoxymethyl)phosphonium [P(3O1)4]...
Whether used as electrolytes or solvents for synthesis both the bulk viscosity and microscopic dynamics of ions in ionic liquids often determine applicability these. Hence, it is important to understand connection between structures liquid these key properties. Features that contribute behaviours include ion mass, size, interactions, flexibility ability give rise nanoscale segregation charged nonpolar domains. In this work, we combine experimental theoretical studies a wide range composed...
Ionic liquids have been of great interest throughout this century and continue to find new applications in both academia industry. This is largely due their versatility, with millions potential combinations cations anions, which has led them being described as 'designer solvents'. However, leads its own problems when it comes choosing the optimum ionic liquid for any given application. To fully exploit imperative understand how properties arise from constituent ions. derive meaningful...