Natalia V. Plechkova

TL;DR: There have been parallel and collaborative exchanges between academic research and industrial developments since the materials were first reported in 1914, it is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, a drop-shape analysis technique and 1H NMR measurements were used to monitor the adsorption at the aqueous solution-air interface and selfaggregation behavior of room-temperature ionic liquids (ionic liquids) of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium family of cations, [Cnmim]+, with different linear alkyl chain lengths, CnH2n+1 (½n = 1-7), and different counter-ions, namely [CNMim]Cl (n

TL;DR: In contrast to a recently expressed, and widely cited, view that Ionic liquids are starting to leave academic labs and find their way into a wide variety of industrial applications, the authors demonstrate that there have been parallel and collaborative exchanges between academic research and industrial developments since the materials were first reported in 1914.

TL;DR: In this article, structural and dynamical properties of a series of room temperature ionic liquids, namely 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis{(trifluoromethane)sulfonyl}amide ([Cnmim][NTf2]), with varying alkyl chain lengths (1≤n≤10) at ambient temperature, were reported.

TL;DR: This paper does not identify these impurities but describes a practical method for removing them for spectrochemical applications and clearly note that the method is not "green", but it is anticipated that it will only be applied to the small volumes of ionic liquids required for fundamental spectroscopic studies in academia but not in industrial processes.