Ionic liquid lubricants: When chemistry meets tribology

M Cai, Q Yu, W Liu, F Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) have emerged as potential lubricants in 2001. Subsequently, there has
been tremendous research interest in ILs from the tribology society since their discovery as …

Electrode material–ionic liquid coupling for electrochemical energy storage

X Wang, M Salari, D Jiang, J Chapman Varela… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new electrolyte and electrode designs and compositions has led to
advances in electrochemical energy-storage (EES) devices over the past decade. However …

Microstructural and dynamical heterogeneities in ionic liquids

YL Wang, B Li, S Sarman, F Mocci, ZY Lu… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied
molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation …

Structure and nanostructure in ionic liquids

R Hayes, GG Warr, R Atkin - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Much of chemistry is concerned with the study of reactions and processes in solution, that is,
where liquids are used as solvents. 2, 3 The solvent is the (excess) liquid phase in which …

Nanoconfined ionic liquids

S Zhang, J Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Deng - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been widely investigated as novel solvents, electrolytes, and soft
functional materials. Nevertheless, the widespread applications of ILs in most cases have …

The electrostatic screening length in concentrated electrolytes increases with concentration

AM Smith, AA Lee, S Perkin - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2016 - ACS Publications
According to classical electrolyte theories interactions in dilute (low ion density) electrolytes
decay exponentially with distance, with the Debye screening length the characteristic length …

Ionic liquids at electrified interfaces

MV Fedorov, AA Kornyshev - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Until recently,“room-temperature”(< 100− 150 C) liquidstate electrochemistry was mostly
electrochemistry of diluted electrolytes 1− 4 where dissolved salt ions were surrounded by a …

Long range electrostatic forces in ionic liquids

MA Gebbie, AM Smith, HA Dobbs, GG Warr… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids are pure salts that are liquid under ambient conditions. As liquids composed
solely of ions, the scientific consensus has been that ionic liquids have exceedingly high …

Supercapacitors utilising ionic liquids

A Eftekhari - Energy Storage Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids (ILs) can provide a broad range of opportunities for fabricating high-energy
supercapacitors owing to their wide stable potential windows, flexibility in design, and ionic …

Self-assembled nanostructures in ionic liquids facilitate charge storage at electrified interfaces

X Mao, P Brown, C Červinka, G Hazell, H Li, Y Ren… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Driven by the potential applications of ionic liquids (ILs) in many emerging electrochemical
technologies, recent research efforts have been directed at understanding the complex ion …