Are ionic liquids eco-friendly?

SS de Jesus, R Maciel Filho - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids are molten salts that have excellent chemical and thermal stability. Because
they have qualities inherent to some precepts of green chemistry, they are identified as a …

Enabling sustainable chemistry with ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents: a fad or the future?

AA Quintana, AM Sztapka… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) debuted with a promise of a superior
sustainability footprint due to their low vapor pressure. However, their toxicity and high cost …

Review of the toxic effects of ionic liquids

CW Cho, TPT Pham, Y Zhao, S Stolte… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Interest in ionic liquids (ILs), called green or designer solvents, has been increasing
because of their excellent properties such as thermal stability and low vapor pressure; thus …

Mechanisms of action of ionic liquids on living cells: The state of the art

P Kumari, VVS Pillai, A Benedetto - Biophysical reviews, 2020 - Springer
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a relatively new class of organic electrolytes composed of an organic
cation and either an organic or inorganic anion, whose melting temperature falls around …

Fundamental importance of ionic interactions in the liquid phase: A review of recent studies of ionic liquids in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

KS Egorova, VP Ananikov - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, research on ions and ionic interactions in solution has become a leading
scientific direction, and this advance has been especially pronounced in the field of ionic …

Solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of crystalline cellulosic materials using a direct dissolution ionic liquid electrolyte

L Fliri, K Heise, T Koso, AR Todorov, DR Del Cerro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Owing to its high sustainable production capacity, cellulose represents a valuable feedstock
for the development of more sustainable alternatives to currently used fossil fuel-based …

Recycling of superbase-based ionic liquid solvents for the production of textile-grade regenerated cellulose fibers in the lyocell process

S Elsayed, S Hellsten, C Guizani, J Witos… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ioncell is a Lyocell based technology for the production of man-made cellulose fibers. This
technology exploits the intrinsic dissolution power of superbase-based ionic liquids (ILs) …

A large-scale study of ionic liquids employed in chemistry and energy research to reveal cytotoxicity mechanisms and to develop a safe design guide

LU Dzhemileva, VA D'yakonov, MM Seitkalieva… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Device-level applications of organic electrolytes unavoidably imply extensive contact with
the environment. Despite their excellent scientific potential, ionic liquids (ILs) cannot be …

Synthesis, self-assembly, bacterial and fungal toxicity, and preliminary biodegradation studies of a series of L-phenylalanine-derived surface-active ionic liquids

IV Kapitanov, A Jordan, Y Karpichev, M Spulak… - Green …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We report for the first time a comprehensive study on the synthesis (supported by green
chemistry metrics), aggregation properties, bacterial/fungal toxicities and preliminary data on …

Essential requirements of biocompatible cellulose solvents

T Komori, H Satria, K Miyamura, A Ito… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Energy-efficient bioethanol production from plant biomass is in high demand, and one of the
most promising procedures reported to date is one-pot ethanol production, that is, the …