Symposium 1
New Insights and Applications in Ionic Liquid Electrochemistry

Sponsoring Division: Division 1, Analytical Electrochemistry

Room temperature ionic liquids have provided a focus for intense research in electrochemistry. A level of maturity is now emerging which allows realistic assessments of what are genuinely novel applications not possible with molecular solvents containing added supporting electrolyte. New requirements in theoretical understanding that need to be established also are emerging. This symposium will seek to provide a survey of new underlying theoretical principles that explain electrochemical data in ionic liquids and to present reports on novel applications in areas such as electroanalytical chemistry, mechanisms of electrode processes, capacitors, batteries and fuel cells. A symposium devoted to advances in fundamental and applied areas may have a significant impact on future directions of electrochemistry based on ionic liquids.

Topics include but are not limited to:
- Electrochemistry in new classes of ionic liquids
- New developments in double layer theory
- Theory of electron transfer in ionic liquids
- Use of ionic liquids in novel electrode preparations
- Advances in capacitors, batteries and fuel cell devices
- Analytical applications exploiting unique properties of ionic liquids
- Role of impurities in ionic liquid electrochemistry
- Mass transport in ionic liquids
- Electrodeposition

Symposium organizers
Alan Bond, (Coordinator) Monash University, Australia
alan.bond@sci.monash.edu.au
Didier Devilliers, UPMC University , Paris, France
didier.devilliers@upmc.fr
Corinne Lagrost, Université de Rennes 1, France
corinne.lagrost@univ-rennes1.fr
Jie Zhang, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
zhangjie@ibn.a-star.edu.sg