Lei Liang, a postdoc in Ye's research group and first author of the paper, built a device in which he could induce ferromagnetism in non-magnetic platinum, using a field effect generated by gating through an ionic medium
called ionic liquid.
The solvent,
called an ionic liquid, enabled the metal chlorides to convert the sugars to HMF.
The early version of the fuel cell uses an expensive material
called an ionic liquid as the electrolyte, for example.
Not exact matches
The researchers began by making a number of
liquid salts
called «protic
ionic liquids» or PILs.
After treating a common cellulosic biofuels plant
called switchgrass with a compound known as an
ionic liquid (IL) to break apart the plant fibers and reduce the lignin, the researchers added their engineered E. coli.
Metal chlorides belong to a class of
ionic -
liquid - soluble materials
called halides, which «in general work well for converting fructose to HMF,» Zhang said — but not so well when glucose is the initial stock.