Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs or, simply, ILs) are liquid salts at temperatures near or slightly above room temperature.ILs consist entirely of bulky, asymmetric organic cations and a variety of anions and, as a consequence, ILs have non-measureable vapor pressure.Due to their unique physical properties, RTILs can be used and recycled as environmentally benign solvents without loss due to evaporation.Envisioned applications range from carbon dioxide capture to battery electrolyte replacement to cellulose dissolution and processing.Nanostructural organization of aqueous ILs and its change with water concentration are of interest in many recent studies.Water molecules can form hydrogen bond with anions in ILs.At low water concentrations water molecules form complexes mostly with anions rather than with other water molecules and begin to form clusters at high water concentrations.Diffusion is the macroscopic result of random thermal motion on a microscopic scale which is useful to understand the movement of a single molecule while viscosity is a collective transport property for the entire system.Viscosity can increase dramatically as I would also like to appreciate my dissertation committee:
Author: Xi‐Wen Du
Institution: University of Toledo
Language: English
Subfield: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Field: Chemistry
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1827085237