Operando tribo-Raman spectroscopic observation for wear processes of superlow frictional concentrated polymer brushes at frictional interface by Hikaru Okubo, Daiki Kagiwata, Shinya Sasaki, Yoshinobu Tsujii, Ken Nakano

“…In this study, an operando tribo-Raman spectroscopic experiment, which is an effective approach for revealing the wear mechanisms of tribo-materials, was conducted on the frictional interface between a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)-CPB and a bearing steel ball immersed in an ionic liquid (IL), which is a good solvent for PMMA-CPBs. …”
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Influence of Solvent System on the Electrochemical Properties of a <i>closo</i>-Borate Electrolyte Salt by Matthew Green, Hovnan Simonyan, Katty Kaydanik, Joseph A. Teprovich

“…Based on the symmetrical cell and galvanostaic cycling studies it was determined that the carbonate based liquid electrolytes performed better than the ionic liquid electrolyte. This work demonstrates that halogen free <i>closo</i>-borate salts are interesting candidates and worthy of further investigation as lithium salts for LIB.…”
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Cellulose-Based Films with Ultraviolet Shielding Performance Prepared Directly from Waste Corrugated Pulp by Guangmei Xia, Qiwen Zhou, Zhen Xu, Jinming Zhang, Xingxiang Ji, Jun Zhang, Haq Nawaz, Jie Wang, Jianfeng Peng

“…Herein, without any pretreatment, the waste old corrugated cartons were directly dissolved in ionic liquid 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, and semitransparent cellulose-based films were successfully fabricated. …”
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Graphene-Wine Waste Derived Carbon Composites for Advanced Supercapacitors by Violeta Ureña-Torres, Gelines Moreno-Fernández, Juan Luis Gómez-Urbano, Miguel Granados-Moreno, Daniel Carriazo

“…Graphene-biowaste-derived carbon composites are tested as active electrode materials in two different non-aqueous electrolytes, the ammonium salt-based conventional organic electrolyte and one imidazolium-based ionic liquid (1 M Et₄NBF₄/ACN and EMINTFSI). …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Dopamine and Uric Acid in Real Samples Using a Voltammetric Nanosensor Based on Co-MOF, Graphene Oxide, and 1-Methyl-3-butylimidazolium Bromide by Maryam Roostaee, Hadi Beitollahi, Iran Sheikhshoaie

“…A chemically modified carbon paste electrode, based on a CoMOF-graphene oxide (GO) and an ionic liquid of 1-methyl-3-butylimidazolium bromide (CoMOF-GO/1-M,3-BB/CPE), was fabricated for the simultaneous determination of dopamine (DA) and uric acid (UA). …”
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Fully Organic Self-Powered Electronic Skin with Multifunctional and Highly Robust Sensing Capability by Lijuan Song, Zheng Zhang, Xiaochen Xun, Liangxu Xu, Fangfang Gao, Xuan Zhao, Zhuo Kang, Qingliang Liao, Yue Zhang

“…FOSE-skin based on TENG can be fully self-healed within 10 hours after being sheared by employing the self-healing polymer as a triboelectric layer and ionic liquid with the temperature sensitivity as an electrode. …”
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Bilayer Lubricant‐Infused Particulate Films as Slippery Protective Coatings with Durable Anticorrosion and Antifouling Performance by Chih‐Hsuan Chien, Ting‐Lun Chen, Xiao‐Yan Wu, Yi‐Chen Chen, Pin‐Yan Lee, Lu‐Yin Lin, Wei‐Lung Wang, Han‐Yu Hsueh

“…The anticorrosion and antifouling performance of colloid coatings infused with various functional lubricants—ionic liquid, silicone oil, and perfluoropolyether oils—is investigated. …”
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Supramolecular Thixotropic Ionogel Electrolyte for Sodium Batteries by Shipeng Chen, Li Feng, Xiaoji Wang, Yange Fan, Yubin Ke, Lin Hua, Zheng Li, Yimin Hou, Baoyu Xue

“…This thixotropic electrolyte is formed by the supramolecular self-assembly of D-gluconic acetal-based gelator (B8) in an ionic liquid solution of a Na salt, which exhibits moldability, a high ionic conductivity, and a rapid self-healing property. …”
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Lithium-Conducting Organic Solid Electrolyte for Organic Rechargeable Batteries: Boronated Benzoimidazole-Linked Polymer by Minami KATO, Nobuhiko TAKEICHI, Hikaru SANO

“…The resulting B-TFB-HAB-BILP materials have an ionic conductivity of 2.9 × 10−6 S cm−1 at 30 °C, which increases to 1.4 × 10−4 S cm−1 at room temperature with the addition of the ionic liquid, PP13[TFSA]. This can be attributed to the suppression of resistance at the grain boundary. …”
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Deep Eutectic Solvents Extraction and Optimization of Amentoflavone from Selaginella moellendorffii by Chao LIU, Weiwei LI, Jie LEI, Gang LI, Demin LU, Dajun XU, Xiaona SHENG, Mingjiang WU, Gang WANG

“…The results of comparison with hot immersion method, cold immersion method, ionic liquid ultrasonic extraction method and ethanol ultrasonic extraction method showed that the deep eutectic solvent combined with ultrasonic extraction could not only save the extraction time, but also significantly increase the AME extraction rate.…”
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Enhanced thermoelectric performances of flexible PEDOT:PSS film by synergistically tuning the ordering structure and oxidation state by Qikai Li, Qing Zhou, Long Wen, Weishu Liu

“…Herein, we reported an enhanced thermoelectric power factor of PEDOT:PSS from around 1 μW m−1 K−2 to 117 μW m−1 K−2 and high substrate-free strain of 20% through synergistically tuning the ordering structure and the oxidation state. An ionic liquid (EMImTCM) was used to decouple the ionic interaction between PEDOT and PSS, rearranging the morphology of structure that significantly benefit the mechanical flexibility and the electrical conductivity. …”
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Strengthening poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels using biochars and hydrophobic aggregations by Ping Zhang, Ziyi Xu, Zhiying Wu, Ping Xu, Canhui Yang

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate the versatility of the proposed strategy by using water/ionic liquid binary solvent as the solvent system, Laponite as the nano-reinforcement, and dry-anneal as the hydrophobic aggregation enhancer to synthesize mechanically robust hydrogels. …”
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Silica nanoparticle gelled ionic electrolyte for dye sensitized solar cells by Huang, Shengnan, Wang, Xiu, Wong, Chee Cheong

“…Gelled ionic electrolyte was synthesized with silica nanoparticles and binary ionic liquid electrolyte. Symmetric cells with varied silica contents were tested using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to study the effect of silica nanoparticles on counter electrode. …”
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Buried interface defects 2-bromo-1-ethylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate passivates tin oxide layer for high-performance planar perovskite solar cells by Mariyappan, Thambidurai, Dewi, Herlina Arianita, Xizu, Wang, Kanwat, Anil, Bruno, Annalisa, Mathews, Nripan, Dang, Cuong, Nguyen, Hung D.

“…The electron transport layer/perovskite interfaces play a crucial role in facilitating efficient charge transfer and minimizing recombination losses, which are key factors for achieving high power conversion efficiency (PCE) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, a novel ionic liquid called 2-bromo-1-ethylpyridinium tetrafluoroborate (BEPBF4) is added between tin oxide (SnO2) and perovskite layers to improve the photovoltaic performance of PSCs. …”
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Analytical modelling of monolayer graphene-based ion-sensitive FET to pH changes by Che Harun, Fauzan Khairi, Kiani, Mohammad Javad, Ahmadi, Mohammad Taghi, Feiz Abadi, Hediyeh Karimi, Rahmani, Meisam, Hashim, Amin

“…Graphene-based ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is currently getting much attention as a novel material with organic nature and ionic liquid gate that is intrinsically sensitive to pH changes. pH is an important factor in enzyme stabilities which can affect the enzymatic reaction and broaden the number of enzyme applications. …”
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Electrochemical framework for dynamic tracking of Soil Organic Matter by Vikram Narayanan Dhamu, Anirban Paul, Sriram Muthukumar, Shalini Prasad

“…Utilizing this experimental framework- A mechanism of interaction between the RTIL (Room Temperature Ionic-Liquid) modified electrode and the OM functional moieties based on hydrogen bonding and pi-pi interactions captured using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy method is utilized to build a first-of-a-kind electrochemical SOM sensor.…”
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A novel quadruple templates molecularly imprinted polymer electrochemical sensor assisted by second-order calibration methods for detection of Sustanon abuse by Ali R. Jalalvand

“…A rotating glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was modified with fullerene C60-multiwalled carbon nanotubes-ionic liquid (C60-MWCNTs-IL) and used as the working electrode for recording second-order hydrodynamic square wave voltammetric (hydrodynamic SWV) data at different step potentials including 0.02, 0.025, 0.03, 0.035, 0.04 and 0.045 V as a sensitive method. …”
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Fabrication of a novel electrochemical sensing platform for voltammetric screening of prednisolone as a doping agent in sport by Zhigang Wu, Xiru Du, Jie Zhang

“…The prepared CN-Pd hybrid material along with an ionic liquid (IL, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate) were employed for modification of a low expense carbon paste electrode (CPE). …”
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Facile preparation of flame-retardant cellulose composite with biodegradable and water resistant properties for electronic device applications by Saravanan Chandrasekaran, Alvaro Cruz-Izquierdo, Remi Castaing, Baljinder Kandola, Janet L. Scott

“…Cellulose was chosen as a renewable resource, and dissolved in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ionic liquid to prepare a cellulosic continuous film. …”
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Anion detection by electro-insertion into N,N,N ',N '-tetrahexylphenylenediamine (THPD) microdroplets studied by voltammetry, EQCM, and SEM techniques by Marken, F, Compton, R, Goeting, C, Foord, J, Bull, S, Davies, S

“…The oxidation product, an ionic liquid, undergoes rapid ion exchange when the anion of the aqueous electrolyte is exchanged with anions of lower Emid replacing anions of higher Emid. …”