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Li H, Wang J, Warr GG, Atkin R. Nanostructure and Dynamics of the Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid 2:1 (wt:wt) HMIM FAP:TFTFE and HMIM FAP on Graphite and Gold Electrodes as a Function of Potential. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2403109. [PMID: 39105361 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202403109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Revised: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024]
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Video-rate atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to record the near-surface nanostructure and dynamics of one pure ionic liquid (IL), 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate (HMIM FAP), and a locally-concentrated IL comprising HMIM FAP with the low viscosity diluent 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl ether (TFTFE), on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and Au(111) electrodes as a function of potential. Over the potential range measured (open-circuit potential ± 1 V), different near-surface nanostructures are observed. For pure HMIM FAP, globular aggregates align in rows on HOPG, whereas elongated and worm-like nanostructures form on Au(111). For 2:1 (wt:wt) HMIM FAP:TFTFE, larger and less defined diluent swollen IL aggregates are present on both electrodes. Long-lived near-surface nanostructures for HMIM FAP and the 2:1 (wt:wt) HMIM FAP:TFTFE persist on both electrodes. 2:1 (wt:wt) HMIM FAP:TFTFE mixture diffuses more rapidly than pure HMIM FAP on both electrodes with obviously higher diffusion coefficients on HOPG than on Au(111) due to weaker electrostatic and solvophobic interactions between near-surface aggregates and Stern layer ions. These outcomes provide valuable insights for a wide range of IL applications in interface sciences, including electrolytes, catalysts, lubricants, and sensors.
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- Hua Li
- School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
- Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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Elstone NS, Shaw EV, Shimizu K, Lai J, Demé B, Lane PD, Costen ML, McKendrick KG, Youngs S, Rogers SE, Canongia Lopes JN, Bruce DW, Slattery JM. Chain-length dependent organisation in mixtures of hydrogenous and fluorous ionic liquids. Faraday Discuss 2024. [PMID: 39091139 DOI: 10.1039/d4fd00047a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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As part of an ongoing study of the structure and properties of mixtures of ionic liquids in which one component has a hydrocarbon chain and the other a semiperfluorocarbon chain, we now report a study of the mixtures [C8MIM]1-x[C10MIM-F17]x[Tf2N], [C10MIM]1-x[C8MIM-F13]x[Tf2N] and [C10MIM]1-x[C10MIM-F17]x[Tf2N], where [C8MIM][Tf2N] is 1-methyl-3-octylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [C10MIM][Tf2N] is 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, [C8MIM-F13][Tf2N] is 1-(1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyl)-3-methylimidizolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and [C10MIM-F17][Tf2N] is 1-(1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyl)-3-methylimidizolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide. The mixtures were investigated using small-angle X-ray (SAXS) and neutron (SANS) scattering complemented by molecular dynamics simulations (with viscosity and surface tension measurements also possible for the mixtures [C10MIM]1-x[C8MIM-F13]x[Tf2N]). Unlike previous studies of [C8MIM]1-x[C8MIM-F13]x[Tf2N], where no strong evidence of alkyl/fluoroalkyl chain segregation or triphilic behaviour was seen (Elstone et al., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2023, 127, 7394-7407), these new mixtures show the formation of small aggregates of varying sizes of each component, even though all were co-miscible across the full range of compositions. Thus, while a clear polar non-polar peak (PNPP) was observed at large or small values of x, at intermediate compositions the small-angle neutron scattering at low q was dominated by scattering from these small aggregates, while at other compositions, there was little or no evidence of the PNPP. The origins of this behaviour are discussed in terms of inter-chain interactions.
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- Naomi S Elstone
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisboa 1049 001, Portugal.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisboa 1049 001, Portugal.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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Pontoni D, DiMichiel M, Murphy BM, Honkimäki V, Deutsch M. Ordering of ionic liquids at a charged sapphire interface: Evolution with cationic chain length. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 661:33-45. [PMID: 38295701 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2024.01.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Revised: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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HYPOTHESIS Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs) bulk's molecular layering dominates their structure also at the RTIL/sapphire interface, increasing the layer spacing with the cationic alkyl chain length n. However, the negatively-charged sapphire surface compresses the layers, increases the layering range, and affects the intra-layer structure in yet unknown ways. EXPERIMENTS X-ray reflectivity (XR) off the RTIL/sapphire interface, for a broad homologous RTIL series 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethansulfonyl)imide, hitherto unavailable for any RTIL. FINDINGS RTIL layers against the sapphire, exhibit two spacings: da and db. da is n-varying, follows the behavior of the bulk spacing but exhibits a downshift, thus showing significant layer compression, and over twofold polar slab thinning. The latter suggests exclusion of anions from the interfacial region due to the negative sapphire charging by x-ray-released electrons. The layering range is larger than the bulk's. db is short and near n-independent, suggesting polar moieties' layering, the coexistence mode of which with the da-spaced layering is unclear. Comparing the present layering with the bulk's and the RTIL/air interface's provides insight into the Coulomb and dispersion interaction balance dominating the RTIL's structure and the impact thereon of the presence of a charged solid interface.
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- Diego Pontoni
- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel University, Kiel D-24098, Germany; Ruprecht-Haensel Laboratory, Kiel University, Kiel D-24118, Germany
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- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Physics Dept. & Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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Yao J, Saielli G, Meng F, Wang Y. Phase coexistence in [C 22/C 1MIm] +[NO 3] - ionic-liquid mixtures and first-order phase transitions from homogeneous liquid to smectic B by varying the cation ratio. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:21595-21603. [PMID: 37551110 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp01670f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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We perform molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the transition processes of [C22/C1MIm]+[NO3]- binary mixtures by varying the cation ratio of C22 to C1 at a fixed temperature of 400 K. The cation ratio is tuned by ranging C22 percentage from 0% to 100% with a fixed number of 4096 total simulated ion pairs. Our simulated-annealing results indicate that, at 400 K, pure C1 is a homogeneous liquid whilst pure C22 is an ionic liquid crystal (ILC) of smectic-B (SmB) type. With increasing C22 percentage, the system goes through a first-order phase transition from homogeneous liquid to nano-fragment liquid in the range from 15% to 17.5%, during which some of the individual cationic alkyl side chains locally aggregate to form small bundles "floating" in the polar "solvent" composed of anions and cationic head groups. Although the side chains in each bundle are parallelly aligned, the bundles distribute randomly without a global orientation. As the C22 percentage further increases, another first-order phase transition occurs to bring the system into the SmB ILC phase. Particularly, when the C22 percentage is in the range from 45% to 50%, the SmB phase coexists with the liquid phase containing both individual and bundled alkyl side chains.
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- Jie Yao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 55 East Zhongguancun Road, P. O. Box 2735, Beijing, 100190, China.
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CNR Institute on Membrane Technology, Unit of Padova, Via Marzolo, 1 - 35131, Padova, Italy
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo, 1 - 35131, Padova, Italy
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 55 East Zhongguancun Road, P. O. Box 2735, Beijing, 100190, China.
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
- Center for Theoretical Interdisciplinary Sciences, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Jinlian Road, Wenzhou, 325001, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 55 East Zhongguancun Road, P. O. Box 2735, Beijing, 100190, China.
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
- Center for Theoretical Interdisciplinary Sciences, Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Jinlian Road, Wenzhou, 325001, China
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Zhang Y, Marlow JB, Millar W, Silvester DS, Warr GG, Li H, Atkin R. Effect of ion structure on the nanostructure and electrochemistry of surface active ionic liquids. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 630:931-939. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Cabry CP, D'Andrea L, Elstone NS, Kirchhecker S, Riccobono A, Khazal I, Li P, Rogers SE, Bruce DW, Slattery JM. Small-angle neutron scattering from mixtures of long- and short-chain 3-alkyl-1-methyl imidazolium bistriflimides. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:15811-15823. [PMID: 35762383 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01528e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The preparation of mixtures of ionic liquids (ILs) represents an attractive strategy to tune their properties, an important aspect of which is to understand how the structure of the bulk varies with composition. In this study, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) was used to probe mixtures of methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids [Cnmim][Tf2N] with [C2mim][Tf2N]) (n = 4, 6, 8 and 10) and of [Cmmim][Tf2N] with [C12mim][Tf2N] (m = 2, 4, 6 and 8). Mixtures were prepared in both contrasts, which is to say that one component would be fully hydrogenated while the other was fully deuterated, and vice versa. Data were fitted using a range of appropriate models, of which the Teubner-Strey model provided most useful information and the pure materials showed a nascent Polar Non-polar Peak (PNPP) for n = 6, which became more evident as n increased. In the mixtures [Cnmim]x[C2mim]1-x[Tf2N], the PNPP was evident for n = 10 and 8, nascent for n = 6 and absent for n = 4, with percolation showing a very strong dependence on the chain length of the added IL, [Cnmim][Tf2N]. In contrast, while the ability of [C12mim][Tf2N] to form percolated structures was damped when mixed with [Cmmim][Tf2N], as m increased from 2 to 6, this effect was less strong. However, data obtained for mixtures of [C12mim][Tf2N] and [C8mim][Tf2N], both of which percolate as pure materials, did not fit easily in any of the models applied to the previous systems and gave results that depended on the contrast used. Complementary small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) data, however, showed the expected evolution and behaviour of the PNPP, COP and CP, revealing that the unexpected observations were due to an adventitious matching out of isotopic contrasts. As well as revealing details of the structures of these IL mixtures, the results also point to complementary strategies for generating bulk percolated structures as a function of cation chain length.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- ISIS, Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK
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- ISIS, Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
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Pontoni D, DiMichiel M, Deutsch M. Binary mixtures of homologous room-temperature ionic liquids: Nanoscale structure evolution with alkyl lengths’ difference. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Green novel multicomponent synthesis and biological evaluation of new oxazolopyrazoloazepines and reduction of nitrophenols in the presence of Ag/Fe 3O 4/ZnO@MWCNT MNCs. Mol Divers 2022; 26:3279-3294. [PMID: 35322312 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-022-10390-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this research, new derivatives of oxazolopyrazoloazepines were synthesized in high yields using multicomponent reaction of anilines, oxalylchloride, alkyl bromides, activated acetylenic compounds, hydrazine and ethyl bromopyruvate in the presence of Ag/Fe3O4/ZnO@MWCNT magnetic nanocomposite (MNCs) as a high-performance magnetic catalyst in ionic liquid at room temperature. The Ag/Fe3O4/ZnO@MWCNT magnetic nanocomposites (MNCs) were synthesized using 1-octhyl-3-methyl imidazolium bromide ([OMIM]Br) as a stabilizer and soft template. Also, the catalytic activity of the Ag/Fe3O4/ZnO@MWCNT MNCs was evaluated in reduction of organic pollutants such as 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) in water at mild conditions. The results indicated that the biosynthesized nanocomposites (NCs) have high catalytic activity for organic pollutants within few seconds. Because of having benzazepine nucleus in the synthesized compounds, we investigate antioxidant property of some synthesized oxazolopyrazoloazepines by diphenyl-picrylhydrazine radical trapping and power of ferric reduction experiment. Short time of reaction, high yields of product, easy separation of catalyst and products are some advantages of this procedure.
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Pontoni D, DiMichiel M, Deutsch M. Binary mixtures of homologous room-temperature ionic liquids: Temperature and composition evolution of the nanoscale structure. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Deutsch M, Magnussen OM, Haddad J, Pontoni D, Murphy BM, Ocko BM. Comment on "Bi-layering at ionic liquid surfaces: a sum - frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy - and molecular dynamics simulation-based study" by T. Iwahashi, T. Ishiyama, Y. Sakai, A. Morita, D. Kim and Y. Ouchi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 12565. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:5020-5027. [PMID: 33595568 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04882h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This Comment raises several questions concerning the surface structure concluded in the paper referenced in the title. Specifically, that paper ignores previous experiments and simulations which demonstrate for the same ionic liquids depth-decaying, multilayered surface-normal density profiles rather than the claimed molecular mono- or bi-layers. We demonstrate that the claimed structure does not reproduce the measured X-ray reflectivity, which probes directly the surface-normal density profile. The measured reflectivities are found, however, to be well-reproduced by a multilayered density model. These results, and previous experimental and simulation results, cast severe doubt on the validity of the surface structure claimed in the paper referenced in the title.
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- Moshe Deutsch
- Physics Department and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel.
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- Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics and Ruprecht-Haensel Laboratory, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Physics Department and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel.
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- Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM), ESRF - The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics and Ruprecht-Haensel Laboratory, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Pontoni D, DiMichiel M, Deutsch M. Nanoscale Structure in Short‐Chain Ionic Liquids. Chemphyschem 2020; 21:1887-1897. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Diego Pontoni
- Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM) ESRF – The European Synchrotron 71 Avenue des Martyrs 38043 Grenoble France
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- ESRF – The European Synchrotron 71 Avenue des Martyrs 38043 Grenoble France
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- Physics Dept. & Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan Israel
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