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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 14, Pages 3922-3927Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01720
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- ARC Discovery Project [DP130102298]
- ARC Future Fellowship [FT120100313]
- ISIS
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Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are neoteric liquids produced by mixing a high melting-point salt and a molecular hydrogen-bond donor. Amphiphilic (self-assembled) liquid nanostructure, which is key for many of the useful properties of the related ionic liquid class, has not previously been experimentally demonstrated in DESs. Here we show how amphiphilically nanostructured DESs can be prepared using primary ammonium cations. The bulk structure of alkylammonium bromide (alkyl = ethyl-, propyl-, and butyl) and glycerol DESs at a 1:2 mol ratio is examined using neutron diffraction and empirical potential structure refinement fitting. Analysis reveals cation alkyl chain association, which is the signature of amphiphilic liquid nanostructure, in all systems, which becomes better defined with increasing chain length. The ability to form amphiphilically nanostructured DESs will enable the translation of ionic liquid properties associated with liquid nanostructure to DESs.
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