Melting point depression of ionic liquids confined in nanospaces

Mitsuhiro Kanakubo, Yusuke Hiejima, Kimitaka Minami, Takafumi Aizawa, Hiroshi Nanjo

Chemical Communications · 2006 · 106 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

A new physical method was proposed to control the liquid properties of room temperature ionic liquids (RT-ILs) in combination with nanoporous materials; the melting point of ILs confined in nanopores remarkably decreases in proportion to the inverse of the pore size.

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