Lignin is the most abundant aromatic polymer available on earth and is a recalcitrant by-
product in the lignocellulose biomass-based industry. In recent times even though about 1 g …

Ionic liquids are extremely versatile and continue to find new applications in academia as
well as industry. This versatility is rooted in the manifold of possible ion types, ion …

Packaging is a food preservation technology widely used in the world. Naturally-sourced,
biodegradable polymers are becoming increasingly popular in the food packaging sector …

Thermal energy storage systems utilising phase change materials have the potential to
overcome the intermittency issues associated with most renewable energy sources …

Corrosion process and means of eradicating it continue to gain attention amongst
researchers. The use of organic corrosion inhibitors became popular owing to their …

Recently, aluminum–graphite batteries using chloroaluminate ionic liquid electrolytes have
been shown to store charge with significant pseudocapacitive contributions, features …

In previous work with thermally robust salts [Cassity et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,
19, 31560] it was noted that an increase in the dipole moment of the cation generally led to a …

The thermal stability of ionic liquids is important for their use in a variety of applications.
Here, reactive molecular dynamics simulations and thermogravimetric analyses were used …

Thermally-stable ionic liquids (ILs) have limited structural possibilities and lack coordinating
anions or functional groups. Thermal stability effectively incurs a tunability penalty, limiting …

Melting behaviors of energetic compounds determine their thermo-responsive properties,
which affects the manufacturing operations and structural stabilities. However, the decisive …