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Ionic liquids: environmentally sustainable materials for energy conversion and storage applications
(Springer, 2024) Gaurav Choudhary; Jyoti Dhariwal; Moumita Saha; Shruti Trivedi; Manoj K. Banjare; Rahul Kanaoujiya; Kamalakanta Behera
Ionic liquids (ILs), often known as green designer solvents, have demonstrated immense application potential in numerous scientific and technological domains. ILs possess high boiling point and low volatility that make them suitable environmentally benign candidates for many potential applications. The more important aspect associated with ILs is that their physicochemical properties can be effectively changed for desired applications just by tuning the structure of the cationic and/or anionic part of ILs. Furthermore, these eco-friendly designer materials can function as electrolytes or solvents depending on the application. Owing to the distinctive properties such as low volatility, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and better ionic conductivity, ILs are nowadays immensely used in a variety of energy applications, particularly in the development of green and sustainable energy storage and conversion devices. Suitable ILs are designed for specific purposes to be used as electrolytes and/or solvents for fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors (SCs), and solar cells. Herein, we have highlighted the utilization of ILs as unique green designer materials in Li-batteries, fuel cells, SCs, and solar cells. This review will enlighten the promising prospects of these unique, environmentally sustainable materials for next-generation green energy conversion and storage devices. Ionic liquids have much to offer in the field of energy sciences regarding fixing some of the world’s most serious issues. However, most of the discoveries discussed in this review article are still at the laboratory research scale for further development. This review article will inspire researchers and readers about how ILs can be effectively applied in energy sectors for various applications as mentioned above. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023.
Self-Assembled Nanostructures within Ionic Liquids-based Media
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2023) Jyoti Dhariwal; Gaurav Choudhary; Dipti Vaya; Srikanta Sahu; Manish Shandilya; Poonam Kaswan; Ambrish Kumar; Shruti Trivedi; Manoj K. Banjare; Kamalakanta Behera
Ionic liquids (ILs) have shown immense potential as suitable alternatives to environmentally damaging volatile organic solvents (VOS). These unique materials possess very unusual physicochemical properties, such as low melting point, high boiling point, excellent thermal and chemical stability, large electrochemical window, very low volatility and high conductivity. One of the most important features associated with ILs is that their physicochemical properties, like viscosity, density, hydrophobicity, solubility, polarity, etc., can be effectively tuned for desired applications just by tuning the structures of cations and/or anions. Further, these designer solvents show dual behavior, i.e., electrolytes and solvents. In the last two decades, these unique materials have shown tremendous application potential in various interdisciplinary research areas, such as synthesis, catalysis, separation, extraction, nanoscience, and pharmaceutics, among many others. Further, the formation of surfactant self-assembled nanostructures (micelles and microemulsions (ME)) within ionic liquid-based systems of immense importance due to the vast utility of these nanostructures well as ILs in various fields of science and technology. These microheterogeneous systems can be effectively used as greener alternatives to those environmentally harmful volatile organic solvents which are largely used for academic and industrial research purposes. The IL-based self-assembled nanostructures show major advantages due to their affinity to solubilize many chemical and biochemical solutes (both hydrophilic as well as hydrophobic), thereby expanding their potential application as solubilizing media, media for synthesis, catalysis and biocatalysis, separation and extraction, drug delivery vehicles, and media for biochemical stability (e.g., protein and enzyme stability). This book chapter will highlight the formation and utility of various types of self-assembled nanostructures formed by surfactants, polymers, etc., within Ils-based media. © 2023, Bentham Books imprint.