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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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Synthesis, Characterization, and Thermophysical Properties of 1,8-Diazobicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene Based Thiocyanate Ionic Liquids
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of alkyl spacer length on physicochemical properties of DBU-based ionic liquids was studied by attaching ethyl, butyl, hexyl, octyl, decyl, and tetradecyl groups to the DBU cation.
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Recent Advances in Application of Ionic Liquids in Electrolyte of Lithium Ion Batteries
Huizhe Niu,Le Wang,Ping Guan,Nan Zhang,Chaoren Yan,Minling Ding,Xulong Guo,Huang Tongtong,Xiaoling Hu +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a few application of ionic liquids (ILs) are reviewed by focusing on their use as electrolyte materials for LiBs, and the main challenges and perspective of IL-PILs-based electrolytes are illustrated at the end of this review.
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A New Proton Conductive Liquid with No Ions: Pseudo‐Protic Ionic Liquids
TL;DR: It is suggested that electrically neutral molecular species predominantly exist in an N-methylimidazole and acetic acid equimolar mixture, and that ionic species are rather minor; the mixture has significant ionic conductivity, and shows "good ionic" or "superionic" behavior.
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Addressing thermodynamic Instability of Zn anode: classical and recent advancements
Ahmad Naveed,Geerhardt Kornatowski,Tahir Rasheed,Bareera Raza,Jiahang Chen,Jun Yang,Nuli Yan-Na,Jiulin Wang,Jiulin Wang +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of Zn metal anode performance in different electrolyte systems like aqueous (acidic, alkaline, mildly acidic and neutral), non-aqueous (organic, ionic liquids) electrolytes, particularly with intrinsic safe organic solvents, is presented.
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Interactions in Water–Ionic Liquid Mixtures: Comparing Protic and Aprotic Systems
Joshua Elias Samuel James Reid,Richard Gammons,John M. Slattery,Adam J. Walker,Seishi Shimizu +4 more
TL;DR: Self-association of water in both PIL-water systems leading to the presence of large aggregates of waterIn IL-rich compositions has been inferred, and water has little effect on the average ion-ion interactions in both protic and aprotic ILs, aside from the AIL, which shows a strengthening of ion- ion interactions with increasing water content.
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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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