Synthesis of Advanced Materials Using Supercritical Fluids

Synthesis of Advanced Materials Using Supercritical Fluids 

There has been strong interest in the use of SCCO2 for polymer synthesis over the last 12 years, dating from seminal publications in this area by DeSimone and coworkers [13, 14]. This topic has been reviewed extensively [1, 15], and we will focus here on recent developments and new strategies for addressing challenges connected with industrial implementation. 

Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in Polymer Reaction Engineering 

Copyright 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim 

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Ionic liquids (ILs) are, together with water and supercritical fluids, one of the few alternative media for environmentally friendly processes, which seem to have more possibility of industrial application in the next 10 years. The range of demonstrated or proposed applications of ILs is extraordinary, going from their use as nonvolatile, non-flammable solvents in organic synthesis to catalysts, materials for aiding separations and gas capture, advanced heat transfer fluids, lubricants, antistatics, and so on [2 ]. Surpassing in magnitude the number of potential uses is the number of possible IL compositions, estimated to be in the billions [5]. The term ionic liquids includes all compounds composed exclusively by ions that are liquid... 

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