Andre ´Pinkert was born in Schwabach, Germany, in 1981. He studied Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nu ¨rnberg, Germany, and received his prediploma and diploma degrees in 2004 and 2008, respectively. During 2005, he joined the Marine Natural Products Group, lead by Murray H. Munro and John W. Blunt, at the University of Canterbury (UoC), New Zealand, working on the isolation and characterization of bioactive metabolites. In early 2006, he returned to Germany and resumed his studies at the University of Erlangen-Nu ¨rnberg, finishing his degree under the supervision of Rudi van Eldik. Associated with his studies, during 2007, he worked for AREVA NP on radio-nuclear chemistry and computer modeling. Since 2008, he is studying towards a Ph.D. degree at UoC under the supervision of Shusheng Pang, Ken Marsh, and Mark Staiger. His research focuses on biocomposites from natural fibers, processed via ionic liquids.

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Thermodynamic, x-ray diffraction, and Raman and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements show that clusters of H2 can be stabilized and stored at low pressures in a sII binary clathrate hydrate. Clusters of H2 molecules occupy small water cages, whereas large water cages are singly occupied by tetrahydrofuran. The presence of this second guest component stabilizes the clathrate at pressures of 5 megapascals at 279.6 kelvin, versus 300 megapascals at 280 kelvin for pure H2 hydrate.

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The development, scope, and functionality of the Web-based ionic liquids database, ILThermo, are described. The database is available free to the public and aims to provide users worldwide with up to date information from publications of experimental thermophysical properties for ionic liquids, including numerical property values, measurement methods, sample purities, purification methods, and uncertainties. The database can be searched in terms of the ions constituting the ionic liquids, the ionic liquids themselves, and their properties and through literature citation information

This article describes a 10-year cooperative effort between the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and five major journals in the field of thermophysical and thermochemical properties to improve the quality of published reports of experimental data. The journals are Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Thermochimica Acta, and International Journal of Thermophysics. The history of this unique cooperation is outlined, together with an overview of software tools and procedures that have been developed and implemented to aid authors, editors, and reviewers at all stages of the publication process, including experiment

Room-temperature ionic liquids are salts that are liquid at room temperature. Their use as catalysts and catalytic support has been studied extensively. However, there are very few measurements on their solubility and phase equilibria in common organic solvents. In this work, the liquid-liquid phase equilibria of mixtures of room-temperature ionic liquids, 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [R n mim][PF 6 ] (1) where R n ) butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, and octyl, with butan-1-ol (2) over a composition range have been measured. The binodal coexistence curves of the mixtures were found to have an upper critical solution temperature (USCT) at x 2 ≈ 0.9. The UCST decreases with increase in the length of the alkyl chain of the ionic liquid, with the UCST of the butyl at 373 K and that of the octyl at 326 K. Both the UCST and the composition at the UCST as a function of the 1-alkyl group chain length can be reasonably well predicted from theory on the basis of unimolecular quantum chemical calculations.