Theory and simulations of ionic liquids in nanoconfinement

S Kondrat, G Feng, F Bresme, M Urbakh… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Capacitance of carbon-based electrical double-layer capacitors

H Ji, X Zhao, Z Qiao, J Jung, Y Zhu, Y Lu… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Experimental electrical double-layer capacitances of porous carbon electrodes fall below
ideal values, thus limiting the practical energy densities of carbon-based electrical double …

Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants

F Bresme, AA Kornyshev, S Perkin, M Urbakh - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Room-temperature ionic liquids and their mixtures with organic solvents as lubricants open
a route to control lubricity at the nanoscale via electrical polarization of the sliding surfaces …

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 …