Philippi, Frederik; Rauber, Daniel; Eliasen, Kira Lieberkind; Bouscharain, Nathalie; Niss, Kristine; Kay, Christopher William Michael; Welton, Tom; (2022) Pressing Matter: Why are Ionic Liquids so Viscous? Chemical Science 10.1039/d1sc06857a. (In press).

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Abstract

Room temperature ionic liquids are considered to have huge potential for practical applications such as batteries. However, their high viscosity presents a significant challenge to their use changing from niche to ubiquitous. The modelling and prediction of viscosity in ionic liquids is the subject of an ongoing debate involving two competing hypotheses: molecular and local mechanisms versus collective and long-range mechanisms. To distinguish between these two theories, we compared an ionic liquid with its uncharged, isoelectronic, isostructural molecular mimic. We measured the viscosity of the molecular mimic at high pressure to emulate the high densities in ionic liquids, which result from the Coulomb interactions in the latter. We were thus able to reveal that the relative contributions of coulombic compaction and the charge network interactions are of similar magnitude. We therefore suggest that the optimisation of the viscosity in room temperature ionic liquids must follow a dual approach.

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