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Iwahashi T, Kishida H, Zhou W, Kim D, Ouchi Y. Activation Energy of Ion Desorption at Ionic Liquid/Pt Electrode Interfaces: A Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopic Study. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:5018-5029. [PMID: 38723200 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c00158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2024]
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Electrolyte/electrode interfaces of room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) exhibit hysteretic responses to different applied potentials owing to the differences in the ion adsorption/desorption processes; the ion desorption requires excess potential, which reflects the activation energy of ion desorption. Thus far, the contributions of the ion adsorption energy and the activation barrier for ion desorption toward the ion-dependent excess potential have not been quantified. Herein, we report on our infrared-visible sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy study of the hysteretic responses of the anion adsorption/desorption at Pt electrode interfaces using neat, binary, and diluted RTILs composed of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium cations ([C4mim]+) and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide ([TFSA]-) and trifluoromethanesulfonate ([OTf]-) anions. Experimental results are compared to the theoretical calculations for the electric double layer model. The hysteretic response of the RTIL/Pt interface derives predominantly from the activation energy of anion desorption, which causes the negative excess potential required for anion desorption. A comparison of the anion adsorption/desorption behaviors of neat RTILs with those of binary and diluted RTILs reveals that the large activation energy of anion desorption at the neat RTIL/Pt interface originates largely from the activation barrier for restructuring ionic layering in the diffuse layer.
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- Takashi Iwahashi
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Physics, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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Coskun OK, Muñoz M, Dongare S, Dean W, Gurkan BE. Understanding the Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024. [PMID: 38341773 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2024]
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Developing unconventional electrolytes such as ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) has led to remarkable advances in electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices. However, the understanding of the electrode-electrolyte interfaces of these electrolytes, specifically the liquid structure and the charge/electron transfer mechanism and rates, is lacking due to the complexity of molecular interactions, the difficulty in studying the buried interfaces with nanometer-scale resolution, and the distribution of the time scales for the various interfacial events. This Feature Article outlines the standing questions in the field, summarizes some of the exciting approaches and results, and discusses our contributions to probing the electrified interfaces by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and neutron reflectivity (NR). The related findings are analyzed within electrical double-layer models to provide a framework for studying ILs, DESs, and, more broadly, the concentrated hydrogen-bonded electrolytes.
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- Oguz Kagan Coskun
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Lucio AJ, Sumarlan I, Bulmer E, Efimov I, Viles S, Hillman AR, Zaleski CJ, Ryder KS. Measuring and Enhancing the Ionic Conductivity of Chloroaluminate Electrolytes for Al-Ion Batteries. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2023; 127:13866-13876. [PMID: 37492190 PMCID: PMC10364082 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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At the core of the aluminum (Al) ion battery is the liquid electrolyte, which governs the underlying chemistry. Optimizing the rheological properties of the electrolyte is critical to advance the state of the art. In the present work, the chloroaluminate electrolyte is made by reacting AlCl3 with a recently reported acetamidinium chloride (Acet-Cl) salt in an effort to make a more performant liquid electrolyte. Using AlCl3:Acet-Cl as a model electrolyte, we build on our previous work, which established a new method for extracting the ionic conductivity from fitting voltammetric data, and in this contribution, we validate the method across a range of measurement parameters in addition to highlighting the model electrolytes' conductivity relative to current chloroaluminate liquids. Specifically, our method allows the extraction of both the ionic conductivity and voltammetric data from a single, simple, and routine measurement. To bring these results in the context of current methods, we compare our results to two independent standard conductivity measurement techniques. Several different measurement parameters (potential scan rate, potential excursion, temperature, and composition) are examined. We find that our novel method can resolve similar trends in conductivity to conventional methods, but typically, the values are a factor of two higher. The values from our method, on the other hand, agree closely with literature values reported elsewhere. Importantly, having now established the approach for our new method, we discuss the conductivity of AlCl3:Acet-Cl-based formulations. These electrolytes provide a significant improvement (5-10× higher) over electrolytes made from similar Lewis base salts (e.g., urea or acetamide). The Lewis base salt precursors have a low economic cost compared to state-of-the-art imidazolium-based salts and are non-toxic, which is advantageous for scale-up. Overall, this is a noteworthy step at designing cost-effective and performant liquid electrolytes for Al-ion battery applications.
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- Anthony J. Lucio
- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Mataram, Jl. Majapahit. No. 62, Mataram, 83115 Lombok, Indonesia
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- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, U.K.
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- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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- Biotechnology
Group, School of Chemistry, University of
Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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- Centre
for Sustainable Materials Processing, School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, U.K.
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Pitawela N, Shaw SK. Imidazolium Triflate Ionic Liquids' Capacitance-Potential Relationships and Transport Properties Affected by Cation Chain Lengths. ACS MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AU 2021; 1:117-130. [PMID: 36785553 PMCID: PMC9885949 DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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In this paper we report the effects of five imidazolium cations with varying alkyl chain lengths to study the effects of cation size on capacitance versus voltage behavior. The cations include ethyl-, butyl-, hexyl-, octyl-, and decyl-3-methylimidazolium, all paired with a triflate anion. We analyze the capacitance with respect to the cation alkyl chain length qualitatively and quantitatively by analyzing changes in the capacitance-potential curvature shape and magnitude across several standard scanning protocols and electrochemical techniques. Further, three transport properties (viscosity, diffusion coefficient, and electrical conductivity) are experimentally determined and integrated into the outcomes. Ultimately, we find higher viscosities, lower diffusion coefficients, and lower electrical conductivities when the alkyl chain length is increased. Also, capacitance values increase with cation size, except 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium, which does not follow an otherwise linear trend. This capacitive increase is most pronounced when sweeping the potential in the cathodic direction. These findings challenge the conventional hypothesis that increasing the length of the alkyl chain of imidazolium cations diminishes the capacitance and ionic liquid performance in charge storage.
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Schalenbach M, Durmus YE, Tempel H, Kungl H, Eichel RA. Double layer capacitances analysed with impedance spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry: validity and limits of the constant phase element parameterization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:21097-21105. [PMID: 34523643 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03381f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Routinely, cyclic voltammetry (CV) or electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) are used in electrochemistry to probe the current response of a specimen. For the interpretation of the response, constant phase elements (CPEs) are used in the frequency domain based impedance calculus to parameterize the double layer. In this study, the double layer responses to the two measurement techniques are compared by probing a model-type polished gold electrode under potential and amplitude variation. The equivalent circuit that describes the double layer includes a CPE and is parameterized by impedance data, while a computational impedance-based Fourier transform model (source code disclosed) is used to describe the CV response. With CV, the measured and modelled responses show good agreement at amplitudes below 0.2 V and within a certain scan rate window. At larger amplitudes, the ion arrangement in the double layer is actively changed by the measurement, leading to potential dependencies and deviations from the CPE behaviour. These varying contributions to the impedance measurements are not respected in the impedance calculus that relies on a sinusoidal response. The transition from perturbations of the double layer equilibrium to distortions of the ion arrangements is analysed with both measurement methods.
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- Maximilian Schalenbach
- Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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- Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9), Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
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Lian Z, Chao H, Wang ZG. Effects of Confinement and Ion Adsorption in Ionic Liquid Supercapacitors with Nanoporous Electrodes. ACS NANO 2021; 15:11724-11733. [PMID: 34228448 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We investigate the effects of pore size and ion adsorption on the room-temperature ionic liquid capacitor with nanoporous electrodes, with a focus on optimizing the capacitance and energy storage. Using a recently developed modified BSK model accounting for both ion correlations and nonelectrostatic interactions, we find that ion crowding proximate to the electrode surface induced by the spontaneous charge separation due to strong ion correlations is responsible for the anomalous increase in the capacitance with decreasing pore sizes observed in experiments. Reducing the strength of ion correlations increases the capacitance and suppresses the anomalous size dependence. For a given pore size, the capacitance peak diverges when the ion correlation strength α reaches a critical value, αsc,L. The capacitance peak shifts to smaller pore size as α decreases because of rapid decrease of αsc,L with decreasing pore size. Asymmetric preferential ion adsorption is shown to lead to significantly enhanced energy storage close to the transition point for any pore sizes. For a given correlation strength, the energy storage is optimal at a pore size where α = αsc,L.
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- Zengju Lian
- School of Physical Science and Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, P. R. China
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Wu D, Ma C, Fan GC, Pan F, Tao Y, Kong Y. Recent advances of the ionic chiral selectors for chiral resolution by chromatography, spectroscopy and electrochemistry. J Sep Sci 2021; 45:325-337. [PMID: 34117714 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202100334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Revised: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Ionic chiral selectors have been received much attention in the field of asymmetric catalysis, chiral recognition, and preparative separation. It has been shown that the addition of ionic chiral selectors can enhance the recognition efficiency dramatically due to the presence of multiple intermolecular interactions, including hydrogen bond, π-π interaction, van der Waals force, electrostatic ion-pairing interaction, and ionic-hydrogen bond. In the initial research stage of the ionic chiral selectors, most of work center on the application in chromatographic separation (capillary electrophoresis, high-performance liquid chromatography, and gas chromatography). Differently, more and more attention has been paid on the spectroscopy (nuclear magnetic resonance, fluorescence, ultraviolet and visible absorption spectrum, and circular dichroism spectrum) and electrochemistry in recent years. In this tutorial review as regards the ionic chiral selectors, we discuss in detail the structural features, properties, and their application in chromatography, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry.
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- Datong Wu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, MOE, Shandong Key Laboratory of Biochemical Analysis, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology, School of Petrochemical Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, P. R. China
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Jarošová R, Bhardwaj K, Swain GM. Temperature dependence of the heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constant for ferrocene carboxylic acid in room temperature ionic liquids at microstructurally distinct carbon electrodes. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bhardwaj K, Parvis F, Wang Y, Blanchard GJ, Swain GM. Effect of Surface Oxygen on the Wettability and Electrochemical Properties of Boron-Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Electrodes in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:5717-5729. [PMID: 32348147 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This paper reports on how the surface chemistry of boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond (BDD) thin-film electrodes (H vs O) affects the wettability and electrochemical properties in two room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs): [BMIM][PF6] and [HMIM][PF6]. Comparative measurements were made in 0.5 mol L-1 H2SO4. The BDD electrodes were modified by microwave or radio-frequency (RF) plasma treatment in H2 (H-BDD), Ar (Ar-BDD), or O2 (O-BDD). These modifications produced low-, medium-, and high-oxygen surface coverages. Atomic O/C ratios, as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), were 0.01 for H-BDD, 0.08 for Ar-BDD, and 0.17 for O-BDD. The static contact angle of ultrapure water on the modified electrodes decreased from 110° (H-BDD) to 41° (O-BDD) with increasing surface oxygen coverage, as expected as the surface becomes more hydrophilic. Interestingly, the opposite trend was seen for both RTILs as the contact angle increased from 20° (H-BDD) to 50° (O-BDD) with increasing surface oxygen coverage. The cyclic voltammetric background current and potential-dependent capacitance in both RTILs were largest for BDD electrodes with the lowest O/C ratio (H-BDD) and smallest contact angle. Slightly larger voltammetric background currents and capacitance were observed in [HMIM][PF6] than in [BMIM][PF6]. Capacitance values ranged from 8 to 16 μF cm-2 over the potential range for H-BDD and from 4 to 6 μF cm-2 for O-BDD. The opposite trend was observed in H2SO4 as the voltammetric background current and capacitance were largest for BDD electrodes with the highest O/C ratio (O-BDD) and smallest contact angle. In summary, reducing the surface oxygen on BDD electrodes increases the wettability to two RTILs and this increases the voltammetric background current and capacitance.
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- Kirti Bhardwaj
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, 428 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, 428 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226, United States
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Hu S, Wang L, Chen X, Wei X, Tong Z, Yin L. The conversion of α-pinene to cis-pinane using a nickel catalyst supported on a discarded fluid catalytic cracking catalyst with an ionic liquid layer. RSC Adv 2019; 9:5978-5986. [PMID: 35517281 PMCID: PMC9060876 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra00675c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Ni/DF3C coated with ionic liquid layer exhibits excellent selectivity toward cis-pinane and stability in the hydrogenation of α-pinene.
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- Shunyou Hu
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Resource Processing and Process Intensification Technology
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Guangxi University
- Nanning 530004
- P. R. China
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