Nanostructured landscape

The giant wheel molyhdenum-oxide based anions can be considered as objects which show a variety of nanoscale structural functionalities ( nanostructured landscape ) not only allowing reactions at a variety of well-defined centres/groups but also offering the option of acting as potential nano-reactors or -containers. Some relevant reactions are ... 

After asserting the nanostructured nature of ionic liquids, the structural analysis of these fluids continued in two different directions. The first was to check how the built-in flexibility of the isolated ions of the model affect (or are affected by) the nanostructured nature of the ionic liquid, and how that can influence properties like viscosity, electrical conductivity, or diffusion coefficients. It must be stressed that the charges in the CLAP model are fixed to the atomic positions, which means that the most obvious way to probe the relation between the structure of the ionic liquid as a whole in terms of the structure of its individual ions is to investigate the flexibility (conformational landscape) of the latter. The second alternative direction was to probe the structure of ionic liquids not by regarding into the structure of the component ions but by instead using an external probe (for example, a neutral molecular species), solubility experiments with selected solute molecules being the most obvious experimental approach. 

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