Environmental impacts, pollution sources and pathways of spent lithium-ion batteries

W Mrozik, MA Rajaeifar, O Heidrich… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a growing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric transportation and to
support the application of renewable energies by auxiliary energy storage systems. This …

Ionic liquids toxicity—benefits and threats

J Flieger, M Flieger - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ionic liquids (ILs) are solvents with salt structures. Typically, they contain organic cations
(ammonium, imidazolium, pyridinium, piperidinium or pyrrolidinium), and halogen …

Toward the proactive design of sustainable chemicals: Ionic liquids as a prime example

S Beil, M Markiewicz, CS Pereira, P Stepnowski… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The tailorable and often unique properties of ionic liquids (ILs) drive their implementation
into a broad variety of seminal technologies. The modular design of ILs allows in this context …

Environmental application, fate, effects, and concerns of ionic liquids: a review

M Amde, JF Liu, L Pang - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) comprise mostly of organic salts with negligible vapor pressure and low
flammability that are proposed as replacements for volatile solvents. ILs have been …

Biodegradation of ionic liquids–a critical review

A Jordan, N Gathergood - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The importance of biodegradation data as part of the design of safer chemicals is presented
using ionic liquids (ILs) as a model study. Structural features that promote/impede IL …

Recovery and purification of ionic liquids from solutions: a review

J Zhou, H Sui, Z Jia, Z Yang, L He, X Li - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
With low melting point, extremely low vapor pressure and non-flammability, ionic liquids
have been attracting much attention from academic and industrial fields. Great efforts have …

A brief overview of the potential environmental hazards of ionic liquids

MC Bubalo, K Radošević, IR Redovniković… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Over past decades ionic liquids, a promising alternative to traditional organic solvents, have
been dramatically expanding in popularity as a new generation of chemicals with potential …

Environmental impact of ionic liquids: recent advances in (eco) toxicology and (bio) degradability

SPF Costa, AMO Azevedo, PCAG Pinto… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Review aims to integrate the most recent and pertinent data available on the (bio)
degradability and toxicity of ionic liquids for global and critical analysis and on the conscious …

Emerging impacts of ionic liquids on eco-environmental safety and human health

P Wei, X Pan, CY Chen, HY Li, X Yan, C Li… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to their unique physicochemical properties, ionic liquids (ILs) have been rapidly
applied in diverse areas, such as organic synthesis, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry …

Combining chemometrics and sensors: Toward new applications in monitoring and environmental analysis

J Chapman, VK Truong, A Elbourne… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
For many years, an extensive array of chemometric methods have provided a platform upon
which a quantitative description of environmental conditions can be obtained. Applying …