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Designing interactions across interfaces in ionic liquids

Ionic liquids (ILs) have attracted much attention because of their unusual charac- teristics (vapor pressure, condictivity, etc.). Furthermore, they can be designed to display desired properties specific to an application (task-specific ionic liquid, TSILs ...

EPFL2016

Strong Coupling between Nanofluidic Transport and Interfacial Chemistry: How Defect Reactivity Controls Liquid-Solid Friction through Hydrogen Bonding

Gabriele Tocci

Defects are inevitably present in nanofluidic systems, yet the role they play in nanofluidic transport remains poorly understood. Here, we report ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of the friction of liquid water on defective graphene and boro ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Direct Conversion of Mono- and Polysaccharides into 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Using Ionic-Liquid Mixtures

Rosario Scopelliti, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Sviatlana Siankevich, Philip Gregory Jessop

Platform chemicals are usually derived from petrochemical feedstocks. A sustainable alternative commences with lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable feedstock, but one that is highly challenging to process. Ionic liquids (ILs) are able to solubilize biomass ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Conversion of biomass into value-added chemicals

Sviatlana Siankevich

Green house gas emissions, the depleting of non-renewable resources, and poor waste management have a detrimental environmental and socioeconomic impact. Consequantly, the development of alternative processes that alleviate these problems is imperative. Ap ...

EPFL2016

Nanoparticle - Ionic Liquid Based Catalytic Systems

Alena Karakulina

In recent years ionic liquids have emerged as an important class of compounds for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles. The significant advantage of using ionic liquids is their dual role of reaction solvent and nanoparticle stabilizer. The variability of ...

EPFL2016

Water-Mediated Ion Pairing: Occurrence and Relevance

Sylvie Roke

We present an overview of the studies of ion pairing in aqueous media of the past decade. In these studies, interactions between ions, and between ions and water, are investigated with relatively novel approaches, including dielectric relaxation spectrosco ...

American Chemical Society2016

Two-dimensional honeycomb network through sequence-controlled self-assembly of oligopeptides

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

The sequence of a peptide programs its self-assembly and hence the expression of specific properties through non-covalent interactions. A large variety of peptide nanostructures has been designed employing different aspects of these non-covalent interactio ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Goldschmidt's Rules and Strontium Replacement in Lead Halogen Perovskite Solar Cells: Theory and Preliminary Experiments on CH3NH3SrI3

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Tor Jesper Jacobsson

During the past few years, organic lead halogen perovskites have emerged as a class of highly promising solar cell materials, with certified solar cell efficiencies now surpassing 20%. Concerns have, however, been raised about the possible environmental an ...

American Chemical Society2015

Characterization of Solid-Liquid Interfaces with High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy

Maria Ricci

Solid-liquid interfaces are ubiquitous. Despite the unquestioned relevance, many scientific research fields rely on simplified or macroscopic descriptions, discarding the molecular nature of the constituents. However, it is the specific molecular interacti ...

EPFL2015

Electrochemical behaviour of ferrocenes in tributylmethylphosphonium methyl sulfate mixtures with water and 1,2-dichloroethane

Zhifeng Ding, Thomas James Stockmann

Electron transfer (ET) reactions in ionic liquid (IL)vertical bar organic solvent (1,2-dichloroethane, DCE) and IL vertical bar water mixtures were investigated using a Pt disk ultramicroelectrode (UME) along with ferrocene (Fc) and ferrocenemethanol (FcCH ...

Canadian Science Publishing, Nrc Research Press2015

Electrochemical assessment of water|ionic liquid biphasic systems towards cesium extraction from nuclear waste

Zhifeng Ding, Thomas James Stockmann

A room temperature ionic liquid (IL) composed of a quaternary alkylphosphonium (trihexyltetradecylphosphonium, P66614(+)) and tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) borate anion (TB) was employed within a water| P66614TB (w|P66614TB or w|IL) biphasic system to evalua ...

Elsevier2014