Dong Bin, Xing Xueqing, Wang Rui, Wang Bing, Zhou Xiaoyan, Wang Chang, Yu Li, Wu Zhonghua, Gao Yanan
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jul 14;51(55):11119-22. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03192c.
The ionic liquid (IL), tetrabutylphosphonium trifluoroacetate ([P4444][CF3COO]), showed a low critical solution temperature (LCST)-type phase transition in water. Using this temperature-sensitive IL and the Triton X-100/H2O system, the reversible transformation between micelles and microemulsions was thus realized by a thermal stimulus for the first time.