Interfacial engineering has long been a vital means of improving thin-film device
performance, especially for organic electronics, perovskites, and hybrid devices. It greatly …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have unique physicochemical properties that make them advantageous for
catalysis, such as low vapor pressure, non-flammability, high thermal and chemical …

Low-molecular-weight adhesives (LMWAs) possess many unique features compared to
polymer adhesives. However, fabricating LMWAs with adhesion strengths higher than those …

Ionic liquids (ILs), salts with melting points below 100° C, represent a fascinating class of
liquid materials typically characterized by an extremely low vapor pressure. Besides their …

The development of Na secondary batteries that exhibit both sustainability and high energy
density as potential successors to lithium-ion batteries for certain large-scale applications …

Achievement of carbon neutrality requires the development of electrochemical technologies
suitable for practical energy storage and conversion. In any electrochemical system …

The ability to obtain a molecular-level understanding of the chemistry that takes place at
liquid/solid interfaces is key to the development and improvement of many chemical and …

Ionic liquids (ILs), a special group of classical molten salts, are widely used in various fields
of science. Historically, researchers have tested ILs out of curiosity or to improve a specific …

Petroleum is currently being used as a major source for chemicals, materials, and fuels, but
poses major concerns in terms of its future utilisation due to resource limitation, increasing …

Ionic liquids with chlorometallate anions may not have been the first ionic liquids, however, it
was their development that lead to the recognition that ionic liquids are a distinct, and useful …