Ionic liquid structure directing template

The application of a 11-ferrocenylundecyl-ammonium bromide/hexa-decylammonium bromide surfactant mixture as structure-directing agent resulted in a lamellar mesostructured silica film, which showed electronic conductivity due to electron transport in the ferrocenyl chains. Lyotropic lithium triflate-silicate liquid crystals have been utilized as supramolecular templates in the synthesis of ionically conducting nanocomposite films. ... 

In ionothermal synthesis, the ionic liquid acts as the solvent, and in many cases also as a template provider playing a structure-directing role in the formation of zeolites and open-framework structures. The use of [EMim][Br] led to the formation of open-framework aluminophosphates SIZ-1, SIZ-3, SIZ-4, SIZ-5, and SlZ-6, (Cooper et al. 2004 Parnham et al. 2006) and the use of choline chloride/urea mixtures led to SlZ-2 and A1PO-CJ2 (Cooper et al. 2004). The ionic liquids acted as both solvent and template provider. 

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