Purpose People in both the developing and developed worlds now face issues like work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict and perceived employee performance with job satisfaction serving as a moderating variable. Design/methodology/approach The object of this study is a full-time teaching faculty. Responses from 280 young university teaching faculty serving in public-sector universities in Islamabad, Pakistan, were investigated by applying linear regression analysis to test six hypotheses. Findings The results show that work-life balance and work-family conflict have a positive effect on employee performance. Job satisfaction has moderating effects on the relationships between work-life balance, work-family conflict, and family-work conflict with perceived employee performance. Originality/value The study presents some unique results, which are different from previous studies such as work-family conflict has a positive significant effect on employee performance, family-work conflict has no significant effect on employee performance, and job satisfaction can be a negative moderator between these relations.

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In this work, synthesis of 12 ionic liquids based on 1,8-diazobicyclo[5.4.0]­undec-7-ene (DBU) cation with anions such as chloride, bromide, and thiocyanate were performed. The new ionic liquids were characterized using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The effect of alkyl spacer length on the physicochemical properties of DBU based ionic liquids was studied by attaching ethyl, butyl, hexyl, octyl, decyl, and tetradecyl groups to the DBU cation. The effects of temperature on the density and viscosity over a temperature range from 293.15 K to 373.15 K were recorded at atmospheric pressure. From the experimental density values, the thermal expansion coefficient values were calculated. The surface tension of the neat ionic liquids was measured at seven different temperatures (293.15 K, 303.15 K, 313.15 K, 323.15 K, 333.15 K, 343.15 K, and 353.15 K). The surface entropy and surface enthalpy were calculated from the experimental surface tension value at 303.15 K. The thermal behavior of these ionic liquids was studied using thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning calorimetry.

Research advances on the syntheses, properties and applications of ultrathin Pd-based nanosheets are summarized.

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