Russina Olga, Lo Celso Fabrizio, Di Michiel Marco, Passerini Stefano, Appetecchi Giovanni Battista, Castiglione Franca, Mele Andrea, Caminiti Ruggero, Triolo Alessandro
Faraday Discuss. 2013;167:499-513. doi: 10.1039/c3fd00056g.
Room temperature ionic liquids are one of the most exciting classes of materials in the last decade. The interest for these low melting, ionic compounds stems from both their technological impact and the stimulating plethora of structural and dynamic peculiarities in the mesoscopic space-time scales. It is nowadays well-established that they are characterised by an enhanced degree of mesoscopic order originating from their inherent amphiphilicity. In this contribution we highlight the existence of a further degree of mesoscopic complexity when dealing with RTILs bearing a medium length fluorous tail: such triphilic materials (they simultaneously contain polar, hydrophobic and fluorophilic moieties that mutually segregate from each other) turn out to be highly structurally compartmentalised at the mesoscopic level, thus paving the way to new smart applications for this new class of RTILs.
室温离子液体是过去十年中最令人兴奋的一类材料。对这些低熔点离子化合物的兴趣源于它们的技术影响以及在介观时空尺度上大量令人兴奋的结构和动态特性。如今，人们已经充分认识到它们的特征是由于其固有的两亲性而具有更高程度的介观有序性。在本论文中，我们强调了在处理带有中等长度氟代链的室温离子液体时，存在进一步的介观复杂性：这种三亲性材料（它们同时包含相互分离的极性、疏水和亲氟部分）在介观层面上具有高度的结构分区性，从而为这类新型室温离子液体的新智能应用铺平了道路。
