Wang Yufeng, Parvis Fatemeh, Hossain Md Iqbal, Ma Ke, Jarošová Romana, Swain Greg M, Blanchard Gary J
Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Langmuir. 2021 Jan 19;37(2):605-615. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03995. Epub 2021 Jan 7.
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 gas phase species and use as reusable solvents for selected organic reactions. All these applications stem from their unique physical and chemical properties, which remain understood to only a limited extent. Among the issues of greatest importance is the extent to which RTILs exist as dissociated ionic species and the length scales over which some types of organizations are seen to exist in them. In this Invited Feature Article, we review the current understanding of organization in this family of materials, where opportunities lie in terms of deepening our understanding, and what potential applications would benefit from gaining such knowledge.
室温离子液体（RTILs）在从超级电容器储能到有毒气相物质的隔离以及用作特定有机反应的可重复使用溶剂等领域有着广泛的当前和潜在应用。所有这些应用都源于它们独特的物理和化学性质，而对这些性质的理解目前还很有限。其中最重要的问题之一是RTILs以解离离子形式存在的程度，以及在其中观察到某些类型的组织存在的长度尺度。在这篇特邀专题文章中，我们回顾了目前对这类材料中组织的理解，深化理解的机会所在，以及哪些潜在应用将从获得这些知识中受益。
