Northern Ireland secondary students work with leading scientists on salty research

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From sustainable fashion to space exploration, ionic liquids have been heralded as the UK innovation most likely to shape the 21st century. Their interesting properties and wide-ranging applications could revolutionise industrial processes, capturing hazardous contaminants from gases, capture and storage of CO₂, or dissolution and processing of waste biomass.

 

IRIS has teamed up with Queen’s University Ionic Liquids Laboratories (QUILL)  – the oldest and most established centre dedicated to studying ionic liquids – to immerse 50 secondary students from schools across Northern Ireland into the study of the liquid salt as part of the pilot project Ionic Liquids: Towards Greener Fragrances. A spin-off of IRIS Ionic Liquids, the charity hopes to launch the project to all UK schools in the 2022-2023 academic year.