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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 148, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5016236
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- DOE Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- CNR
- ISIS under RB [1700047]
- University of Rome Sapienza Project: Microscopic and mesoscopic organization in ionic liquid-based systems [RG11715C7CC660BE]
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Fluorinated Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (FRTILs) are a branch of ionic liquids that is the object of growing interest for a wide range of potential applications, due to the synergic combination of specifically ionic features and those properties that stem from fluorous tails. So far limited experimental work exists on the micro-and mesoscopic structural organization in this class of compounds. Such a work is however necessary to fully understand morphological details at atomistic level that would have strong implications in terms of bulk properties. Here we use the synergy between X-ray and neutron scattering together with molecular dynamics simulations to access structural details of a technologically relevant FRTIL that is characterised by an anion bearing a long enough fluorinated tail to develop specific morphological features. In particular, we find the first experimental evidence that in FRTILs bearing an asymmetric bis(perfluoroalkyl) sulfonyl-imide anion, fluorous side chains tend to be spatially segregated into nm-scale spatial heterogeneities. This feature together with the well-established micro-segregation of side alkyl chains in conventional RTILs leads to the concept of triphilic ILs, whose technological applications are yet to be fully developed. Published by AIP Publishing.
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