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3-Dimensional atomic scale structure of the ionic liquid-graphite interface elucidated by AM-AFM and quantum chemical simulations

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

A comparative AFM study of the interfacial nanostructure in imidazolium or pyrrolidinium ionic liquid electrolytes for zinc electrochemical systems

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Addition of low concentrations of an ionic liquid to a base oil reduces friction over multiple length scales: a combined nano- and macrotribology investigation

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Adsorbed and near surface structure of ionic liquids at a solid interface

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Adsorbed and near-surface structure of ionic liquids determines nanoscale friction

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Adsorption Kinetics and Structural Arrangements of Cationic Surfactants on Silica Surfaces

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Adsorption Kinetics and Structural Arrangements of Cetylpyridinium Bromide at the Silica−Aqueous Interface

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Adsorption of 12-s-12 Gemini Surfactants at the Silica−Aqueous Solution Interface

Adsorption of Ionic Surfactants to a Plasma Polymer Substrate

Adsorption of Polyether Block Copolymers at Silica-Water and Silica-Ethylammonium Nitrate Interfaces.

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Amphiphilic nanostructure in choline carboxylate and amino acid ionic liquids and solutions

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Amphiphilic self-assembly of alkanols in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 07 August 2014

Amphiphilically Nanostructured Deep Eutectic Solvents

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Amphiphilicity determines nanostructure in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 06 December 2010

Amplitude-modulated atomic force microscopy reveals the near surface nanostructure of surfactant sponge (L(3)) and lamellar (L(α)) phases

scientific article published on 05 May 2015

An in situ STM/AFM and impedance spectroscopy study of the extremely pure 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate/Au(111) interface: potential dependent solvation layers and the herringbone reconstruction

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

An ionic liquid lubricant enables superlubricity to be "switched on" in situ using an electrical potential

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

Assessment of the Density Functional Tight Binding Method for Protic Ionic Liquids

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At the interface: solvation and designing ionic liquids

scientific article published on 21 January 2010

Boundary layer friction of solvate ionic liquids as a function of potential

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Bulk nanostructure of the prototypical ‘good’ and ‘poor’ solvate ionic liquids [Li(G4)][TFSI] and [Li(G4)][NO3]

scientific article published in 2016

Catanionic and chain-packing effects on surfactant self-assembly in the ionic liquid ethylammonium nitrate

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Combined friction force microscopy and quantum chemical investigation of the tribotronic response at the propylammonium nitrate-graphite interface

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Compact poly(ethylene oxide) structures adsorbed at the ethylammonium nitrate-silica interface

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Conformation of Poly(ethylene oxide) Dissolved in Ethylammonium Nitrate

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

Conformation of poly(ethylene oxide) dissolved in the solvate ionic liquid [Li(G4)]TFSI

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Control of Nanoscale Friction on Gold in an Ionic Liquid by a Potential-Dependent Ionic Lubricant Layer

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

DTAB micelle formation in ionic liquid/water mixtures is determined by ionic liquid cation structure

scientific article published on 25 May 2019

Dichotomous Well-defined Nanostructure with Weakly Arranged Ion Packing Explains the Solvency of Pyrrolidinium Acetate

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Dissolved chloride markedly changes the nanostructure of the protic ionic liquids propylammonium and ethanolammonium nitrate.

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Effect of Deep Eutectic Solvent Nanostructure on Phospholipid Bilayer Phases.

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Effect of alkyl chain length and anion species on the interfacial nanostructure of ionic liquids at the Au(111)-ionic liquid interface as a function of potential

scientific article published on 01 September 2013

Effect of cation alkyl chain length on surface forces and physical properties in deep eutectic solvents.

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Effect of dissolved LiCl on the ionic liquid-Au(111) electrical double layer structure

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Effect of dissolved LiCl on the ionic liquid-Au(111) interface: an in situ STM study

scientific article published on 12 June 2014

Effect of halides on the solvation of poly(ethylene oxide) in the ionic liquid propylammonium nitrate

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Effect of ion structure on nanoscale friction in protic ionic liquids.

scientific article published in August 2014

Effect of protic ionic liquid and surfactant structure on partitioning of polyoxyethylene non-ionic surfactants

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Effect of protic ionic liquid nanostructure on phospholipid vesicle formation.

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Electro-Responsive Surface Composition and Kinetics of an Ionic Liquid in a Polar Oil

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Engineering high-energy-density sodium battery anodes for improved cycling with superconcentrated ionic-liquid electrolytes

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

How water dissolves in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Influence of Hydrogen Bonding between Ions of Like Charge on the Ionic Liquid Interfacial Structure at a Mica Surface

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Influence of Water on the Interfacial Nanostructure and Wetting of [Rmim][NTf2] Ionic Liquids at Mica Surfaces

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

Influence of alkyl chain length and anion species on ionic liquid structure at the graphite interface as a function of applied potential

scientific article published on 12 June 2014

Influence of temperature and molecular structure on ionic liquid solvation layers

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Interactions of adsorbed poly(ethylene oxide) mushrooms with a bare silica–ionic liquid interface

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Interfacial and bulk nanostructure of liquid polymer nanocomposites

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Investigations into Physicochemical Changes in Thermal Coals during Low-Temperature Ionic Liquid Treatment

Ion structure controls ionic liquid near-surface and interfacial nanostructure.

scientific article published on 29 October 2014

Ionic Liquid Adsorption and Nanotribology at the Silica-Oil Interface: Hundred-Fold Dilution in Oil Lubricates as Effectively as the Pure Ionic Liquid.

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Ionic liquid lubrication: influence of ion structure, surface potential and sliding velocity

scientific article published in September 2013

Ionic liquid nanostructure enables alcohol self assembly.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Ionic liquid nanotribology: mica-silica interactions in ethylammonium nitrate

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Ionic liquid nanotribology: stiction suppression and surface induced shear thinning

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Is the boundary layer of an ionic liquid equally lubricating at higher temperature?

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Kamlet-Taft Solvation Parameters of Solvate Ionic Liquids

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Li(+) Local Structure in Li-Tetraglyme Solvate Ionic Liquid Revealed by Neutron Total Scattering Experiments with the (6/7)Li Isotopic Substitution Technique.

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Long range electrostatic forces in ionic liquids

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Low cost ionic liquid-water mixtures for effective extraction of carbohydrate and lipid from algae

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Mechanism of cationic surfactant adsorption at the solid-aqueous interface.

scientific article published in May 2003

Metal ion adsorption at the ionic liquid-mica interface

scientific article published on 01 January 2016

Mixing cations with different alkyl chain lengths markedly depresses the melting point in deep eutectic solvents formed from alkylammonium bromide salts and urea.

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Modification of lignites via low temperature ionic liquid treatment

Molecular Resolution in situ Imaging of Spontaneous Graphene Exfoliation

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Molecular scale characterization of the titania-dye-solvent interface in dye-sensitized solar cells.

scientific article published in June 2010

Nano- and Macroscale Study of the Lubrication of Titania Using Pure and Diluted Ionic Liquids

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Nanostructure of [Li(G4)] TFSI and [Li(G4)] NO3 solvate ionic liquids at HOPG and Au(111) electrode interfaces as a function of potential.

scientific article published in January 2015

Nanostructure of an ionic liquid-glycerol mixture

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Nanostructure of the H-terminated p-Si(111)/ionic liquid interface and the effect of added lithium salt

scientific article published on 01 December 2016

Nanostructure of the Ionic Liquid-Graphite Stern Layer

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Nanostructure of the deep eutectic solvent/platinum electrode interface as a function of potential and water content

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Nanostructure, hydrogen bonding and rheology in choline chloride deep eutectic solvents as a function of the hydrogen bond donor

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Nanostructure-thermal conductivity relationships in protic ionic liquids

Nanotribology of hydrogels with similar stiffness but different polymer and crosslinker concentrations

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Near surface properties of mixtures of propylammonium nitrate with n-alkanols 1. Nanostructure

scientific article published on 01 October 2015

Near surface properties of mixtures of propylammonium nitrate with n-alkanols 2. Nanotribology and fluid dynamics.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Nonionic surfactant adsorption at the ethylammonium nitrate surface: a neutron reflectivity and vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy study.

scientific article published in June 2010

Oil core/polymer shell microcapsules by internal phase separation from emulsion droplets. II: controlling the release profile of active molecules

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Partially Naked Fluoride in Solvate Ionic Liquids

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Phase behavior and microstructure of microemulsions with a room-temperature ionic liquid as the polar phase

scientific article published on 17 July 2007

Phase behaviour and thermodynamics: general discussion

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Physicochemical study of diethylmethylammonium methanesulfonate under anhydrous conditions

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Poly(ethylene oxide) Mushrooms Adsorbed at Silica-Ionic Liquid Interfaces Reduce Friction

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Potential Dependence of Surfactant Adsorption at the Graphite Electrode/Deep Eutectic Solvent Interface

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Preparation of Aqueous Core/Polymer Shell Microcapsules by Internal Phase Separation

Probing the protic ionic liquid surface using X-ray reflectivity

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Progress on the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass employing ionic liquids

Pronounced sponge-like nanostructure in propylammonium nitrate.

scientific article published on 9 June 2011

Pronounced structure in confined aprotic room-temperature ionic liquids

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Rheology of protic ionic liquids and their mixtures

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Self-assembled nanostructures in ionic liquids facilitate charge storage at electrified interfaces

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Self-assembly of a nonionic surfactant at the graphite/ionic liquid interface

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Shear dependent viscosity of poly(ethylene oxide) in two protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

Silica particle stability and settling in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Small angle neutron scattering study of the conformation of poly(ethylene oxide) dissolved in deep eutectic solvents

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Spontaneous vesicle formation in a deep eutectic solvent

scientific article published on 24 December 2015

Structural Design of Ionic Liquids for Optimizing Aromatic Dissolution

Structural and aggregate analyses of (Li salt + glyme) mixtures: the complex nature of solvate ionic liquids.

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Structural effect of glyme-Li(+) salt solvate ionic liquids on the conformation of poly(ethylene oxide).

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Structure and dynamics of ionic liquids: general discussion

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Structure and nanostructure in ionic liquids

scientific article published in June 2015

Structure and self assembly of pluronic amphiphiles in ethylammonium nitrate and at the silica surface.

scientific article published in September 2009

Structure of the ethylammonium nitrate surface: an X-ray reflectivity and vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy study

scientific article published on 01 June 2010

Surface Nanobubbles in Nonaqueous Media: Looking for Nanobubbles in DMSO, Formamide, Propylene Carbonate, Ethylammonium Nitrate, and Propylammonium Nitrate.

scientific article published on 13 July 2015

Surface structure of a "non-amphiphilic" protic ionic liquid

scientific article published on 27 January 2012

Surfactant adsorption at the surface of mixed ionic liquids and ionic liquid water mixtures

scientific article published on 07 September 2012

Switchable long-range double layer force observed in a protic ionic liquid.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

The Au(111)/IL interfacial nanostructure in the presence of precursors and its influence on the electrodeposition process

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

The Double-Faced Nature of Hydrogen Bonding in Hydroxy-Functionalized Ionic Liquids Shown by Neutron Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

The effect of ionic liquid hydrophobicity and solvent miscibility on pluronic amphiphile self-assembly

scientific article published on 07 November 2013

The influence of chain length and electrolyte on the adsorption kinetics of cationic surfactants at the silica–aqueous solution interface

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

The interface ionic liquid(s)/electrode(s): in situ STM and AFM measurements.

scientific article published on January 2012

The nature of hydrogen bonding in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

The origin of surfactant amphiphilicity and self-assembly in protic ionic liquids

scientific article published on 04 August 2015

The smallest amphiphiles: nanostructure in protic room-temperature ionic liquids with short alkyl groups

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The thermoelectrochemistry of lithium-glyme solvate ionic liquids: towards waste heat harvesting

scientific article published on 01 July 2016

Treatment of lignite and thermal coal with low cost amino acid based ionic liquid-water mixtures

Tribotronic control of friction in oil-based lubricants with ionic liquid additives.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Weighing the surface charge of an ionic liquid

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

pH-dependent surface properties of the gallium nitride - Solution interface mapped by surfactant adsorption

scientific article published on 23 August 2019