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 …

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 …

Multiscale studies on ionic liquids

K Dong, X Liu, H Dong, X Zhang, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) offer a wide range of promising applications because of their much
enhanced properties. However, further development of such materials depends on the …

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 …

Soft matter in hard confinement: phase transition thermodynamics, structure, texture, diffusion and flow in nanoporous media

P Huber - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

NMR study of ion dynamics and charge storage in ionic liquid supercapacitors

AC Forse, JM Griffin, C Merlet, PM Bayley… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids are emerging as promising new electrolytes for supercapacitors. While their
higher operating voltages allow the storage of more energy than organic electrolytes, they …

Potential‐Dependent Adlayer Structure and Dynamics at the Ionic Liquid/Au (111) Interface: A Molecular‐Scale In Situ Video‐STM Study

R Wen, B Rahn, OM Magnussen - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Room‐temperature ionic liquids are of great current interest for electrochemical applications
in material and energy science. Essential for understanding the electrochemical reactivity of …

Electrochemical scanning probe microscopies in electrocatalysis

Y Liang, JHK Pfisterer, D McLaughlin… - Small …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Improvements toward highly efficient electrochemical energy conversion require a detailed
understanding of the underlying electrochemical processes at electrified solid–liquid …

Insight into the electrical double layer of an ionic liquid on graphene

LA Jurado, RM Espinosa-Marzal - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Graphene is a promising next-generation conducting material with the potential to replace
traditional electrode materials in supercapacitors. Since energy storage in supercapacitors …

Nanostructure of the deep eutectic solvent/platinum electrode interface as a function of potential and water content

OS Hammond, H Li, C Westermann… - Nanoscale …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The interfacial nanostructure of the three most widely-studied Deep Eutectic Solvents
(DESs), choline chloride: urea (ChCl: Urea), choline chloride: ethylene glycol (ChCl: EG) …