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Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future.

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The goal in this review is to survey the recent key developments and issues within ionic-liquid research in these areas, and to generate interest in the wider community and encourage others to make use of ionic liquids in tackling scientific challenges.
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Ionic liquids are room-temperature molten salts, composed mostly of organic ions that may undergo almost unlimited structural variations. This review covers the newest aspects of ionic liquids in applications where their ion conductivity is exploited; as electrochemical solvents for metal/semiconductor electrodeposition, and as batteries and fuel cells where conventional media, organic solvents (in batteries) or water (in polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells), fail. Biology and biomimetic processes in ionic liquids are also discussed. In these decidedly different materials, some enzymes show activity that is not exhibited in more traditional systems, creating huge potential for bioinspired catalysis and biofuel cells. Our goal in this review is to survey the recent key developments and issues within ionic-liquid research in these areas. As well as informing materials scientists, we hope to generate interest in the wider community and encourage others to make use of ionic liquids in tackling scientific challenges.

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Unexpected effects of the alteration of structure and stability of myoglobin and hemoglobin in ammonium-based ionic liquids

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the addition of these ILs to the heme proteins decreases their thermal stability allowing the protein to be in an unfolded state at lower temperatures, as compared to the ILs carrying bulkier alkyl chains, such as TBAH.
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Theoretical and experimental studies of water interaction in acetate based ionic liquids.

TL;DR: Simulations and experiments show that the self-diffusivities for species in the water-IL system exhibit minima at 40-50 mol% water, and indicate that decreasing water-[CH(3)COO](-) interaction will increase the IL and water self-Diffusivities.
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Gel electrolytes based on ionic liquids for advanced lithium polymer batteries

TL;DR: In this article, a new ionic liquid-based polymer gel electrolyte for lithium ion batteries is prepared by combining N-methyl-N-propylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)azanide, organic carbonates, lithium bis(triclobalized polysilicon), and poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene).
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Sodium-Ion Battery Electrolytes: Modeling and Simulations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the efforts made from a modeling and simulation perspective in order to assist both the fundamental understanding as well as the development of higher performance sodium-ion battery (SIB) electrolytes.
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Counterion Dynamics in Polyester-Sulfonate Ionomers with Ionic Liquid Counterions

TL;DR: In this article, ammonium-based ionic liquid counterions were used to increase the conductivity of polyester polyester ionomers, primarily attributed to weaker ionic interactions that lower the glass transition temperature.
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Dissolution of Cellose with Ionic Liquids

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that cellulose can be dissolved without activation or pretreatment in, and regenerated from, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride and other hydrophilic ionic liquids.
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Ionic Liquids in Synthesis

TL;DR: The early years of Ionic liquid production were covered in this article, where a new generation of soluble supports for Supported Organic Synthesis (SPOS) was proposed. But this support was not applied to the task-specific Ionic liquids.
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Handbook of fuel cells : fundamentals technology and applications

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of fuel cell technologies and applications, focusing on hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, and other energy conversion related topics, as well as their applications.
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