Energy applications of ionic liquids: recent developments and future prospects

T Zhou, C Gui, L Sun, Y Hu, H Lyu, Z Wang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) consisting entirely of ions exhibit many fascinating and tunable properties,
making them promising functional materials for a large number of energy-related …

Sustainability of green solvents–review and perspective

V Hessel, NN Tran, MR Asrami, QD Tran, NVD Long… - Green …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvents define pivotal properties for chemical processing and chemical reactions, and can
be as game-changing as catalysts. A solvent can be the key to a good chemical process …

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 …

Destruction of metal–organic frameworks: positive and negative aspects of stability and lability

L Feng, KY Wang, GS Day, MR Ryder… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), constructed from organic linkers and inorganic building
blocks, are well-known for their high crystallinity, high surface areas, and high component …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting greenness of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents

Y Chen, T Mu - Green Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Green solvents are one of the hot topics of green chemistry. Ionic liquids (ILs) and deep
eutectic solvents (DESs) are deemed as green solvents to a certain extent, and they have …

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 …

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 …

Transformations of less-activated phenols and phenol derivatives via C–O cleavage

Z Qiu, CJ Li - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Employing phenols and phenol derivatives as electrophiles for cross-coupling reactions has
numerous advantages over commonly used aryl halides in terms of environmental …

Ionic liquids: a brief history

T Welton - Biophysical reviews, 2018 - Springer
There is no doubt that ionic liquids have become a major subject of study for modern
chemistry. We have become used to ever more publications in the field each year, although …