Sentences with phrase «ionic liquids»

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and General Motors, led by ORNL researcher Dr. Jun Qu, has developed a new group of ionic liquids as lubricant additives that could help improve the energy efficiency of cars and trucks.

Dr Sameer Rahatekar, lead author from the University's Advanced Composite Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS), added: «We used ionic liquids for the first time to produce cellulose and silk scaffolds for stem cells differentiation.

e.g. to determine the dynamics of water in porous media, polymer melts, diffusion processes in ionic liquids as well as magnetic fluctuations in single crystals, powder samples and thin films

Optimized selective aerobic oxidations in ionic liquids convert various activated primary alcohols into their corresponding acids or aldehydes in good to excellent yields.

Surface Science 491, 370 - 387 (2001); J.J. Gray, B.S. El Dasher, & C.A. Orme, Competitive effects of metal dissolution and passivation modulated by surface structure: An AFM and EBSD study of the corrosion of alloy 22, Surface Science 600, 2488 - 2494, (2006); J. S. Keist, C.A. Orme, P.K. Wright, & J.W. Evans, An in situ AFM Study of the Evolution of Surface Roughness for Zinc Electrodeposition within an Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquid Electrolyte.

«We use ionic liquids for this purpose.

Indeed, the new biomass derived ionic liquids still have economic challenges to overcome — one disadvantage Huber raises is that the process to make them uses expensive commodity chemicals, diethylamine and sodium triacetoxyborohydride, for reductive amination.

Now, Seema Singh and colleagues at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and other US institutions have developed a closed - loop system that could potentially reduce the cost and environmental impact of making ionic liquids suitable for biomass processing.

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.

One factor that facilitated their device's progress was the use of room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL), a gel that serves to stabilize the microenvironment at the skin - cell surface so that a week's worth of hourly readings can be taken without the performance degrading over time.

At the conclusion of his talk, he mentioned his interest in pursuing other magnetic sorbents, such as magnetic ionic liquids.

If we can turn lignin byproducts into ionic liquids, we could create a closed - loop process that would help drive down the costs of biofuels for the mass market.»

«Composite material for water purification: Removal of multiple contaminants from water by supported ionic liquid phases.»

Scientists from the Universities of Ulm (Germany) and Zaragoza (Spain) have now seized upon a relatively new approach for designing materials, which allows molecular components to be assembled into multifunctional composites called SILP materials (supported ionic liquid phases).

The paper, «Lignin Extraction from Biomass with Protic Ionic Liquids,» is published online in the journal Green Chemistry.

They discovered that by adding ionic liquid — a kind of liquid salt — they can modify the optical transparency of single - walled carbon nanotube films in a controlled pattern.

Researchers at the University of Maryland and Michigan Technological University have operated a tiny proposed satellite ion rocket under a microscope to see how it works (Nanotechnology, «Radiation - induced solidification of ionic liquid under extreme electric field»).

She says that, in general, deep eutectic solvents are easier to prepare and more biodegradable than potentially toxic ionic liquids.

Imidazolium ionic liquids can cost in the range of $ 17 — $ 25 / kg.

The metal chlorides - ionic liquid system worked ten times faster than the acid and at much lower temperatures.

I use ionic liquid Mega Mag from the people who make Concentrace minerals, Trace Minerals Research.

They consist of various pairs of positively charged and negatively charged ions, and specific ionic liquids are known to be able to dissolve biomass and cellulose efficiently.

«Until now ionic liquid cations have been petroleum based,» says Singh.

The furfural and p - anisaldehyde derived ionic liquids performed best with both providing 90 — 95 % glucose and 70 — 75 % xylose yields from switchgrass after 72 hours incubation with digestive enzymes.

The resulting ionic liquids are hydrophobic, immiscible with water, and form stable thin layers on surfaces.

The researchers began by making a number of liquid salts called «protic ionic liquids» or PILs.

In early 2015, KU Leuven chemists developed ionic liquid technology to recycle europium and yttrium from collected fluorescent lamps and low - energy light bulbs.

«Armed with the rcdA variant, we were able to engineer a strain of E. coli that could not only tolerate ionic liquid, but that could also produce ionic - liquid - tolerant enzymes that chew up the cellulose, make sugars, eat it and make biofuels,» said Frederix.

But what makes ionic liquids great for deconstruction also makes it harmful for the downstream enzymes and bacteria used in biofuel production.

Developing ionic - liquid - tolerant bacteria eliminates the need to wash away the residual ionic liquid.

The layer of ionic liquid allowed the researchers to inject the semiconductor with electrons at a density of a hundred trillion to a quadrillion per square centimeter.

But Graetzel and his colleagues recently discovered that by substituting ionic liquids — liquids made up of charged particles, imidazolium iodide in this case — they could maintain the efficiency and pose no risk of evaporation.

Previous research showed that many ionic liquids can dissolve cellulose.

Building on this process, the researchers wanted to see if they could apply the same ionic liquid to cotton - polyester blends.

The discovery of inexpensive ionic liquids that are compatible with, or improve the performance of, enzymes and biofuel and bioproduct microbial hosts and can be efficiently recycled

I would like to add that the marriage of stir bar dispersive liquid microextraction and magnetic ionic liquids came about after I heard Prof. Alberto Chisvert's talk at Extech 2016 in Poland.

«By directly printing ionic liquid sensors within these soft systems, we open new avenues to device design and fabrication that will ultimately allow true closed loop control of soft robots.»

To address this challenge, the researchers developed an organic ionic liquid - based conductive ink that can be 3D printed within the soft elastomer matrices that comprise most soft robots.

«A Thermophilic Ionic liquid - tolerant Cellulase Cocktail for the Production of Cellulosic Biofuels» published in 2012 has already been viewed 8,871 times and cited 50 times as of today.

Ionic liquids provide an additional benefit: It is reusable, thus produces none of the wastewater in other methods that convert fructose to HMF.

Heldebrant will explore in depth the use of promising new carbon - capture solvents known as switchable ionic liquids.

There are several different ways to get Magnesium: In powder form with a product like Natural Calm so that you can vary your dose and work up slowly, ionic liquid form can be added to food and drinks and dose can be worked up slowly, or transdermal form by using Magnesium oil applied to the skin (this is my favorite method).

Prototype low - viscosity ionic liquid - additized engine oil demonstrated a 2 % improved fuel... Read more →

A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new, more environmentally friendly method of separating bitumen from oil sands utilizing ionic liquids (IL).

The team has published some of its results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, under the title «High Coulombic efficiency aluminum - ion battery using an AlCl3 - urea ionic liquid analog electrolyte.»