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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 123, Issue 6, Pages 1340-1347Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11527
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- Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences
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Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) are a class of organic salts that are liquid at room temperature. Their physiochemical properties, including low vapor pressure and wide electrochemical stability window, have driven their use as electrolytes in many electrochemical applications; however, the slow transport properties of many RTILs have limited their utility in some applications. This issue is often mitigated by solvating ionic liquids in neutral organic solvents. To date, however, solvent interactions have only been explored for a small number of solvents, particularly acetonitrile and propylene carbonate, at only a few compositions. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations in the context of a computational screening approach to study mixtures of ionic liquids in many different solvents at a range of concentrations. Building on prior work, we again find that ionic liquid diffusivity increases monotonically with greater solvent concentration. In contrast to prior work, we find that pure solvent diffusivity, not polarity, is the most influential solvent property on mixture behavior. We also explore the concentration dependence of ionic conductivity and find maxima at intermediate concentrations. Experimental conductivity measurements, inspired by the computational screening study, support this observation with qualitatively consistent results. These results can further guide the selection of solvents for electrochemical applications of RTILs.
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