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Yao B, Paluch M, Paturej J, McLaughlin S, McGrogan A, Swadzba-Kwasny M, Shen J, Ruta B, Rosenthal M, Liu J, Kruk D, Wojnarowska Z. Self-Assembled Nanostructures in Aprotic Ionic Liquids Facilitate Charge Transport at Elevated Pressure. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:39417-39425. [PMID: 37555825 PMCID: PMC10450691 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
Abstract
Ionic liquids (ILs), revealing a tendency to form self-assembled nanostructures, have emerged as promising materials in various applications, especially in energy storage and conversion. Despite multiple reports discussing the effect of structural factors and external thermodynamic variables on ion organization in a liquid state, little is known about the charge-transport mechanism through the self-assembled nanostructures and how it changes at elevated pressure. To address these issues, we chose three amphiphilic ionic liquids containing the same tetra(alkyl)phosphonium cation and anions differing in size and shape, i.e., thiocyanate [SCN]-, dicyanamide [DCA]-, and tricyanomethanide [TCM]-. From ambient pressure dielectric and mechanical experiments, we found that charge transport of all three examined ILs is viscosity-controlled at high temperatures. On the other hand, ion diffusion is much faster than structural dynamics in a nanostructured supercooled liquid (at T < 210 ± 3 K), which constitutes the first example of conductivity independent from viscosity in neat aprotic ILs. High-pressure measurements and MD simulations reveal that the created nanostructures depend on the anion size and can be modified by compression. For small anions, increasing pressure shapes immobile alkyl chains into lamellar-type phases, leading to increased anisotropic diffusivity of anions through channels. Bulky anions drive the formation of interconnected phases with continuous 3D curvature, which render ion transport independent of pressure. This work offers insight into the design of high-density electrolytes with percolating conductive phases providing efficient ion flow.
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- Beibei Yao
- Faculty
of Science and Technology, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Faculty
of Science and Technology, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Faculty
of Science and Technology, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis
Road, BT9 5AG Belfast, NI, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis
Road, BT9 5AG Belfast, NI, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, David Keir Building, Stranmillis
Road, BT9 5AG Belfast, NI, U.K.
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- Institut
Neel, 38000 Grenoble, France
- ESRF—The
European Synchrotron, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Institut
Neel, 38000 Grenoble, France
- ESRF—The
European Synchrotron, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, Box 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
- Dual
Belgian
Beamline (DUBBLE), European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- ESRF—The
European Synchrotron, CS 40220, 38043 Grenoble, France
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- Faculty
of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Sloneczna 54, Olsztyn PL-10710, Poland
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- Faculty
of Science and Technology, Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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Vázquez-Fernández I, Drużbicki K, Fernandez-Alonso F, Mukhopadhyay S, Nockemann P, Parker SF, Rudić S, Stana SM, Tomkinson J, Yeadon DJ, Seddon KR, Plechkova NV. Spectroscopic Signatures of Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs in Protonic Ionic Liquid Systems: Insights from Diethylammonium Nitrate in the Solid State. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2021; 125:24463-24476. [PMID: 34795809 PMCID: PMC8592064 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c05137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Diethylammonium nitrate, [N0 0 2 2][NO3], and its perdeuterated analogue, [N D D 2 2] [NO3], were structurally characterized and studied by infrared, Raman, and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopy. Using these experimental data along with state-of-the-art computational materials modeling, we report unambiguous spectroscopic signatures of hydrogen-bonding interactions between the two counterions. An exhaustive assignment of the spectral features observed with each technique has been provided, and a number of distinct modes related to NH···O dynamics have been identified. We put a particular emphasis on a detailed interpretation of the high-resolution, broadband INS experiments. In particular, the INS data highlight the importance of conformational degrees of freedom within the alkyl chains, a ubiquitous feature of ionic liquid (IL) systems. These findings also enable an in-depth physicochemical understanding of protonic IL systems, a first and necessary step to the tailoring of hydrogen-bonding networks in this important class of materials.
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- Isabel Vázquez-Fernández
- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- Materials
Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, Donostia-San
Sebastian 20018, Spain
- Centre
of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewicza 112, Lodz 90-363, Poland
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- Materials
Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, Donostia-San
Sebastian 20018, Spain
- Donostia
International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, Donostia-San
Sebastian 20018, Spain
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University College
London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
- Ikerbasque,
Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, Bilbao 48009, Spain
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- ISIS
Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, U.K.
- Department
of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- ISIS
Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- ISIS
Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- ISIS
Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0QX, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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- The
QUILL Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland, U.K.
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Bryant SJ, Atkin R, Gradzielski M, Warr GG. Catanionic Surfactant Self-Assembly in Protic Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:5926-5931. [PMID: 32628489 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Mixing of cationic and anionic surfactants in water can result in pseudo-double-tailed catanionic surfactant ion pairs that form lamellar phases or vesicles that are unstable toward electrolyte addition. Here we show that despite the very high ionic strengths, catanionic surfactants counterintuitively form a wider variety of self-assembled aggregates in pure ionic liquids (ILs, pure salts in a liquid phase) than in water, including micelles, vesicles, and lyotropic phases. Self-assembled structures only form when the IL is sufficiently polar to drive self-assembly through electrostatic interactions and/or H-bond networks, but the catanionic effect is manifested only when the IL does not itself exhibit pronounced amphiphilic nanostructure. This enables the type of catanionic aggregate formed to be designed by changing the hydrogen bonds between the ions through variation of the structures of the cation and anion. These results reveal an entirely new way of controlling catanionic surfactant self-assembly under nonaqueous and high-salt conditions.
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- Saffron J Bryant
- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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- Institute for Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Strasse des 17 Juni 124, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Wang YL, Li B, Sarman S, Mocci F, Lu ZY, Yuan J, Laaksonen A, Fayer MD. Microstructural and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Ionic Liquids. Chem Rev 2020; 120:5798-5877. [PMID: 32292036 PMCID: PMC7349628 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 49.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation-anion moieties and in functionalizing ions with different atoms and molecular groups contributes to their peculiar interactions ranging from weak isotropic associations to strong, specific, and anisotropic forces. A delicate interplay among intra- and intermolecular interactions facilitates the formation of heterogeneous microstructures and liquid morphologies, which further contributes to their striking dynamical properties. Microstructural and dynamical heterogeneities of ILs lead to their multifaceted properties described by an inherent designer feature, which makes ILs important candidates for novel solvents, electrolytes, and functional materials in academia and industrial applications. Due to a massive number of combinations of ion pairs with ion species having distinct molecular structures and IL mixtures containing varied molecular solvents, a comprehensive understanding of their hierarchical structural and dynamical quantities is of great significance for a rational selection of ILs with appropriate properties and thereafter advancing their macroscopic functionalities in applications. In this review, we comprehensively trace recent advances in understanding delicate interplay of strong and weak interactions that underpin their complex phase behaviors with a particular emphasis on understanding heterogeneous microstructures and dynamics of ILs in bulk liquids, in mixtures with cosolvents, and in interfacial regions.
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- Yong-Lei Wang
- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- School
of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, P. R. China
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- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University
of Cagliari, I-09042 Monserrato, Italy
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- State
Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China
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- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department
of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- State
Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China
- Centre of
Advanced Research in Bionanoconjugates and Biopolymers, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Aleea Grigore Ghica-Voda, 41A, 700487 Iasi, Romania
- Department
of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Warr GG, Atkin R. Solvophobicity and amphiphilic self-assembly in neoteric and nanostructured solvents. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2019.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Jiang HJ, Imberti S, Simmons BA, Atkin R, Warr GG. Structural Design of Ionic Liquids for Optimizing Aromatic Dissolution. CHEMSUSCHEM 2019; 12:270-274. [PMID: 30300962 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201802016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Certain protic ionic liquids (PILs) are potentially low-cost, high-efficiency solvents for the extraction and processing of aromatic compounds. To understand the key design features of PILs that determine solubility selectivity at the atomic level, neutron diffraction was used to compare the bulk structure of two PILs with and without an aromatic solute, guaiacol (2-methoxyphenol). Guaiacol is a common lignin residue in biomass processing, and a model compound for anisole- or phenol-based food additives and drug precursors. Although the presence of amphiphilic nanostructure is important to facilitate the dissolution of solute nonpolar moieties, the local geometry and competitive interactions between the polar groups of the cation, anion, and solute are found to also strongly influence solvation. Based on these factors, a framework is presented for the design of PIL structure to minimize competition and to enhance driving forces for the dissolution of small aromatic species.
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- Haihui Joy Jiang
- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis St., Emeryville, CA, 94608, USA
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- School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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McDonald S, Murphy T, Imberti S, Warr GG, Atkin R. Amphiphilically Nanostructured Deep Eutectic Solvents. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:3922-3927. [PMID: 29961321 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are neoteric liquids produced by mixing a high-melting-point salt and a molecular hydrogen-bond donor. Amphiphilic (self-assembled) liquid nanostructure, which is key for many of the useful properties of the related ionic liquid class, has not previously been experimentally demonstrated in DESs. Here we show how amphiphilically nanostructured DESs can be prepared using primary ammonium cations. The bulk structure of alkylammonium bromide (alkyl = ethyl-, propyl-, and butyl) and glycerol DESs at a 1:2 mol ratio is examined using neutron diffraction and empirical potential structure refinement fitting. Analysis reveals cation alkyl chain association, which is the signature of amphiphilic liquid nanostructure, in all systems, which becomes better defined with increasing chain length. The ability to form amphiphilically nanostructured DESs will enable the translation of ionic liquid properties associated with liquid nanostructure to DESs.
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- Samila McDonald
- Priority Research Centre for Advanced Fluids and Interfaces, Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER) , The University of Newcastle , Newcastle , New South Wales 2308 , Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Advanced Fluids and Interfaces, Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER) , The University of Newcastle , Newcastle , New South Wales 2308 , Australia
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- STFC , Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Didcot OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and Sydney Nano Institute , University of Sydney , Sydney , New South Wales 2006 , Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences , The University of Western Australia , Perth , Western Australia 6009 , Australia
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Ingram DJ, Headen TF, Skipper NT, Callear SK, Billing M, Sella A. Dihydrogen vs. hydrogen bonding in the solvation of ammonia borane by tetrahydrofuran and liquid ammonia. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:12200-12209. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08220g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The solvation structures of two systems rich in hydrogen and dihydrogen bonding interactions have been studied in detail experimentally through neutron diffraction with hydrogen/deuterium isotopic substitution.
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- David J. Ingram
- Department of Physics & Astronomy
- University College London
- London
- UK
- Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy
- University College London
- London
- UK
- London Centre for Nanotechnology
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London
- UK
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