Mesoscopic Structural Heterogeneities in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids

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• 作者：Olga Russina ; Alessandro Triolo ; Lorenzo Gontrani ; Ruggero Caminiti
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：January 5, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：3
• 期：1
• 页码：27-33
• 全文大小：317K
• 年卷期：v.3,no.1(January 5, 2012)
• ISSN：1948-7185

文摘

Ionic liquids represent an exciting novel class of materials with potentially enormous applicative impact; they are proposed as environmentally responsible replacements for the noxious volatile organic solvents, as smart separation and catalysis media, or to develop electrochemical devices, just to mention a few examples. Recently, compelling experimental as well as computational evidence highlighted the complexity of RTIL morphology at the mesoscopic spatial scale, as compared to traditional molecular liquids. In this Perspective, we report on our current understanding on the nature of structural heterogeneities in ionic liquids, describing new experimental data supporting a microphase segregation structural model for these systems and proposing topics for further study.