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. 2016 Nov;28(42):9301-9307.
doi: 10.1002/adma.201602702. Epub 2016 Sep 8.

Facilitated Ion Transport in Smectic Ordered Ionic Liquid Crystals

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Facilitated Ion Transport in Smectic Ordered Ionic Liquid Crystals

Jin Hong Lee et al. Adv Mater. 2016 Nov.

Abstract

A novel ionic mixture of an imidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquid containing ethylene-oxide-functionalized phosphite anions is fabricated, which, when doped with lithium salt, self-assembles into a smectic-ordered ionic liquid crystal through Coulombic interactions between the ion species. Interestingly, the smectic order in the ionic-liquid-crystal ionogel facilitates ionic transport.

Keywords: ionic liquids; liquid crystals; self-assembly; smectic order.

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