Ionic liquids exhibit the piezoelectric effect

MI Hossain, GJ Blanchard - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The piezoelectric effect was discovered over a century ago, and it has found wide
application since that time. The direct piezoelectric effect is the production of charge upon …

Controlling the dynamics of ionic liquid thin films via multilayer surface functionalization

B Wu, JP Breen, X Xing, MD Fayer - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The structural dynamics of planar thin films of an ionic liquid (IL) 1-butyl-3-
methylimidazolium bis (trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide (BmimNTf2) as a function of surface …

From stress to charge: investigating the piezoelectric response of solvate ionic liquid in structural energy storage composites

Ž Simon, B Dharmasiri, T Harte, PC Sherrell… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvate ionic liquids (SILs) are a class of ionic liquids where the liquid-state salt is chelated
by a coordinating solvent, and of interest due to their advantageous properties such as low …

Dilution-induced changes in room temperature ionic liquids. Persistent compositional heterogeneity and the importance of dipolar interactions

MI Hossain, GJ Blanchard - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) exhibit several unusual properties, including the
ability to support an induced free charge density gradient, ρ f. Upon dilution with water …

Structural dynamics in ionic liquid thin films: The effect of cation chain length

B Wu, JP Breen, MD Fayer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
The structural dynamics of planar∼ 100 nm thin films of three ionic liquids (ILs) were
investigated using ultrafast two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR) spectroscopy. The ILs share …

Local and long-range organization in room temperature ionic liquids

Y Wang, F Parvis, MI Hossain, K Ma, R Jarosova… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have a wide range of current and potential
applications, in areas ranging from supercapacitor energy storage to sequestration of toxic …

Characterizing the magnitude and structure-dependence of free charge density gradients in room-temperature ionic liquids

Y Wang, R Jarošová, GM Swain, GJ Blanchard - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
We have reported previously on the existence of charge-induced long-range organization in
the room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL), BMIM+ BF4–. The induced organization is in the …

The effect of dilution on induced free charge density gradients in room temperature ionic liquids

MI Hossain, GJ Blanchard - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on changes in the magnitude and length scale of the induced free charge density
gradient, ρf, in three imidazolium room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) with dilution by …

Relating the Induced Free Charge Density Gradient in a Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid to Molecular-Scale Organization

MI Hossain, L Adhikari, GA Baker… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report on dilution-dependent changes in the local environments of chromophores
incorporated into room-temperature ionic liquid (RTIL)-molecular solvent binary systems …

Cation structure-dependence of the induced free charge density gradient in imidazolium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids

Y Wang, L Adhikari, GA Baker… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on the structure-dependence and magnitude of the induced free charge density
gradient (ρf) seen in room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) with imidazolium and …