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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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Polymeric ionic liquids: Broadening the properties and applications of polyelectrolytes
TL;DR: The polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) as mentioned in this paper are a family of functional polymers with particular properties and new applications, such as energy, environment, optoelectronics, analytical chemistry, biotechnology or catalysis.
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Ionogels, ionic liquid based hybrid materials
TL;DR: In this critical review, ionogels are presented as a new class of hybrid materials, in which the properties of the IL are hybridized with those of another component, which may be organic, inorganic or hybrid organic-inorganic, which opens new routes for designing advanced materials, especially (bio)catalytic membranes, sensors and drug release systems.
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Supercapacitors performance evaluation
Sanliang Zhang,Ning Pan +1 more
TL;DR: The performance of a supercapacitor can be characterized by a series of key parameters, including the cell capacitance, operating voltage, equivalent series resistance, power density, energy density, and time constant.
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Nanotechnology-Enabled Energy Harvesting for Self-Powered Micro-/Nanosystems
Zhong Lin Wang,Wenzhuo Wu +1 more
TL;DR: Various approaches for energy harvesting to meet the future demand for self-powered MNSs are covered.
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On the molecular origin of supercapacitance in nanoporous carbon electrodes
Céline Merlet,Céline Merlet,Benjamin Rotenberg,Benjamin Rotenberg,Paul A. Madden,Pierre-Louis Taberna,Pierre-Louis Taberna,Patrice Simon,Patrice Simon,Patrice Simon,Yury Gogotsi,Mathieu Salanne,Mathieu Salanne +12 more
TL;DR: This work provides the first quantitative picture of the structure of an ionic liquid adsorbed inside realistically modelled microporous carbon electrodes and shows how the separation of the positive and negative ions occurs inside the porous disordered carbons, yielding much higher capacitance values than with simpler electrode geometries.
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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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Handbook of fuel cells : fundamentals technology and applications
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