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ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 640-643Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00955
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- Alexander von Humboldt foundation via the Bessel research award
- Ecole Normale Superieure
- ANR MIDWAY [ANR-17-CE05-0008]
- Ile-de-France Region (DIM RESPORE)
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [771294]
- French national network Reseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Energie (RS2E) FR CNRS 3459
- Laboratory of Excellence program STORE-EX [ANR 10-LABX-0076]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [646659]
- Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0055]
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Aqueous biphasic systems (ABSs), in which two aqueous phases with different compositions coexist as separate liquids, were first reported more than a century ago with polymer solutions. Recent observations of ABS forming from concentrated mixtures of inorganic salts and ionic liquids raise the fundamental question of how different the components of such mixtures should be for a liquid-liquid phase separation to occur. Here we show that even two monovalent salts sharing a common cation (lithium) but with different anions, namely, LiCl and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI), may result in the formation of ABSs over a wide range of compositions at room temperature. Using a combination of experimental techniques and molecular simulations, we analyze the coexistence diagram and the mechanism driving the phase separation, arising from the different anion sizes. The understanding and control of ABS may provide new avenues for aqueous-based battery systems.
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