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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Electrolytes for lithium and lithium ion batteries: From synthesis of novel lithium borates and ionic liquids to development of novel measurement methods
Marius Amereller,Tanja Schedlbauer,Dominik Moosbauer,Christian Schreiner,Christoph Stock,Franz Wudy,Sandra Zugmann,H. Hammer,Alexander Maurer,Ruth M. Gschwind,Hans-Dieter Wiemhöfer,Martin Winter,Heiner J. Gores,Heiner J. Gores +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of electrolyte investigations is presented, including synthesis and characterization of lithium salts and ionic liquids, including some unpublished recent work, and transference number measurements of lithium ions.
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Spectroscopic Characterization of the SEI Layer Formed on Lithium Metal Electrodes in Phosphonium Bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide Ionic Liquid Electrolytes.
Gaetan M. A. Girard,Matthias Hilder,Nicolas Dupré,Dominique Guyomard,Donato Nucciarone,Kristina Whitbread,Serguei Zavorine,Michael Moser,Maria Forsyth,Douglas R. MacFarlane,Patrick C. Howlett +10 more
TL;DR: The concentrated system is found to promote the formation of a thicker and more uniform SEI with larger amounts of reduced species from the anion, which is thought to facilitate more stable and efficient Li cycling and a reduced tendency for dendrite formation.
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Fabrication and Wettability of Nanoporous Silver Film on Copper from Choline Chloride-Based Deep Eutectic Solvents
Changdong Gu,Xurong Xu,J.P. Tu +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a self-assembled nanoporous network of Ag films with ligament and channel width in the range of 20−80 nm was formed on the copper alloy substrate from 0.01 M AgCl DES solution either at room temperature or at 50 °C.
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"Ionic liquids-in-salt"--a promising electrolyte concept for high-temperature lithium batteries?
TL;DR: Raman and NMR spectroscopies reveal the presence of highly mobile Li-containing species, partly identified as [Li(TFSI)2](-), albeit rather unexpected for these high x values, which might explain the high ionic conductivities observed.
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Imaging an ionic liquid adlayer by scanning tunneling microscopy at the solid|vacuum interface.
TL;DR: Ionic liquids, which are salts usually consisting of stericallyhindered organic ions with melting points below 1008C, are of high interest because of a number of distinct physical proper-ties such as ionic conductivity, electrochemical stability in awide potential window, a very low vapor pressure or low flam-mability.
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Ionic Liquids in Synthesis
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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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