Room temperature ionic liquids electrochemistry

Matsumoto, H., H. Kageyama, and Y. Miyazaki. 2003. Effect of ionic additives on the limiting cathodic potential of EMI-based room temperature ionic liquids. Electrochemistry 71 1058-1060. 

Tonurist, K., T. Thomberg, A. Janes, 1. Kink, and E. Lust. 2012. Specific performance of electrical double layer capacitors based on different separator materials in room temperature ionic liquid. Electrochemistry Communications 22 77-80. 

Howlett, P. C. MacFarlane, D. R. HoUenkamp, A. R, High lithium metal cycling efficiency in a room-temperature ionic liquid, Electochem. Solid-State Lett., 2004, 7, A97-A101. Matsumoto, H. Kageyama, H. Miyazaki, Y., Effect of ionic additives on the limiting cathodic potential of EMI-based room temperature ionic liquids. Electrochemistry, 2005,71, 1058-1060. 

Migita T, Tachikawa N, Katayama Y, Miura T (2009) Thermoelectromotive force of some redox couples in an amide-type room-temperature ionic liquid. Electrochemistry 77 639-641... 

However, ionic liquids containing other classes of organic cations are known. Room-temperature ionic liquids containing organic cations including quaternary ammonium, phosphonium, pyridinium, and - in particular - imidazolium salts are currently available in combination with a variety of anions (Figure 3.1-1 provides some common examples) and have been studied for applications in electrochemistry [7, 8] and in synthesis [9-11]. 

Wilkes, J. S. Levisky, J. A. Wilson, R. A. Hussey, C. L. DialkylimidazoUum chlor-oaluminate melts—A new class of room-temperature ionic liquids for electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and synthesis, Inorg. Chem., 1982, 21(3), 1263-1264. 

Wang, S.F., Chen, T., Zhang, Z.L., Pang, D.W., and Wong, K.Y., Effects of hydrophobic room-temperature ionic liquid l-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate on direct electrochemistry and biocatalysis of heme proteins entrapped in agarose hydrogel films, Electrochem. Commun., 9, 1709-1714, 2007. 

The use of double potential pulse chronoamperometry is of great interest in electrochemistry for an accurate determination of both diffusion coefficients DQ and Dr, and this interest is enhanced when this technique is applied to small size spherical electrodes like the SMDE or gold microhemispheres or microspheres. There is a great number of redox couples for which highly unequal diffusion coefficients appear such as room temperature ionic liquids [23], ferrocene/... 

Doherty, A.P., Koshechko, V., Titov, V. and Mishura, A. (2007) Freon electrochemistry in room-temperature ionic liquids. J. Electroanal. Chem. 602, 91-95. 

This book introduces some basic and advanced studies on ionic liquids in the electrochemical field. Although ionic liquids are known by only a few scientists and engineers, their applications potential in future technologies is unlimited. There are already many reports of basic and applied smdies of ionic liquids as reaction solvents, but the reaction solvent is not the only brilliant future of the ionic liquids. Electrochemistry has become a big field covering several key ideas such as energy, environment, nanotechnology, and analysis. It is hoped that the contributions on ionic liquids in this book will open other areas of smdy as well as to inspire future aspects in the electrochemical field. The applications of ionic liquids in this book have been narrowed to the latest results of electrochemistry. For this reason only the results on room-temperature ionic liquids are presented, and not on high-temperature melts. 

Silvester DS, Compton RG (2006) Electrochemistry in room temperature ionic liquids a review and some possible applications. Z Phys Chem 220 1247-1274... 

Buzzeo MC, Evans RG, Compton RG (2004) Non-haloduminate room-temperature ionic liquids in electrochemistry. Chem Phys Chem 5 1106-1120... 

Wang S-F, Chen T, Zhang Z-L et al (2005) Direct electrochemistry and electrocatalysis of heme proteins entrapped in agarose hydrogel films in room temperature ionic liquids. Langmuir 21 9260-9266... 

Du P, Liu S, Wu P et al (2007) Preparation and characterization of room temperature ionic liquid/single walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites and their application to the direct electrochemistry of heme-containing proteins/enzymes. Electrochim Acta 52 6534-6547... 

Hitchcock PB, Mohammed TJ, Seddon KR, Zora JA, Hussey CL, Ward EH (1986) 1-methyl-3-ethyhmidazolium hexachlorouranate (IV) and l-methyl-3-ethylimidtizolium tetrachlo-rodioxo-uranate (VI) synthesis, structure, and electrochemistry in a room temperature ionic liquid. Inorg Chim Acta 113 L25-L26... 

Alam, M. T., M. M. Islam, T. Okajima, and T. Ohsaka. 2007. Measurements of differential capacitance in room temperature ionic liquid at mercury, glassy carbon and gold electrode interfaces. Electrochemistry Communications 9 2370-2374. 

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