Room-temperature ionic liquids amphiphiles

Other important biphasic concepts are based on the use of room-temperature ionic liquids (cf. Section 7.3) and, more recently, supercritical C02 (cf. Section 7.4) [31]. In addition, the second phase needs not necessarily to be another solvent. An amphiphilic approach can also be based on the use of micellar systems or vesicles formed by surfactants (cf. Section 4.5). A properly functionalized ligand itself can also function as the surfactant (cf. Section 3.2.4), which can even result in the formation of very stable aggregates [32]. 

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