Temperature dependence of viscosity and relation with the surface tension of ionic liquids

Viscosities of ionic liquids were correlated with two linear relations. The first one presents the temperature dependence of imidazolium-, pyridinium-, pyrrolidinium-, quaternary ammonium-, and nicotinium-based ionic liquids with high accuracy. The second one is a linear relation between logarithm of surface tension and fluidity involving the characteristic exponent phi, and fits the ionic liquids uniquely with phi = 0.30. Our previously measured surface tension data of ionic liquids and literature's were used in this study. The dependence of surface tension-fluidity relation of the imidazolium-based ionic liquids on the anion type is likely disappeared as alkyl chain length increases. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.