TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kapernaum, Nadia
A1  - Lange, Alyna
A1  - Ebert, Max
A1  - Grunwald, Marco A.
A1  - Häge, Christian
A1  - Marino, Sebastian
A1  - Zens, Anna
A1  - Taubert, Andreas
A1  - Gießelmann, Frank
A1  - Laschat, Sabine
T1  - Current topics in ionic liquid crystals
JF  - ChemPlusChem
N2  - Ionic liquid crystals (ILCs), that is, ionic liquids exhibiting mesomorphism, liquid crystalline phases, and anisotropic properties, have received intense attention in the past years. Among others, this is due to their special properties arising from the combination of properties stemming from ionic liquids and from liquid crystalline arrangements. Besides interesting fundamental aspects, ILCs have been claimed to have tremendous application potential that again arises from the combination of properties and architectures that are not accessible otherwise, or at least not accessible easily by other strategies. The current review highlights recent developments in ILC research, starting with some key fundamental aspects. Further subjects covered include the synthesis and variations of modern ILCs, including the specific tuning of their mesomorphic behavior. The review concludes with reflections on some applications that may be within reach for ILCs and finally highlights a few key challenges that must be overcome prior and during true commercialization of ILCs.
KW  - electrochemistry
KW  - ionic liquid crystals
KW  - mesogen mesophases
KW  - self-assembly
KW  - X-ray diffraction
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/cplu.202100397
SN  - 2192-6506
VL  - 87
IS  - 1
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balischewski, Christian
A1  - Behrens, Karsten
A1  - Zehbe, Kerstin
A1  - Günter, Christina
A1  - Mies, Stefan
A1  - Sperlich, Eric
A1  - Kelling, Alexandra
A1  - Taubert, Andreas
T1  - Ionic liquids with more than one metal
BT  - optical and rlectrochemical properties versus d-block metal vombinations
JF  - Chemistry - a European journal
N2  - Thirteen N-butylpyridinium salts, including three monometallic [C4Py](2)[MCl4], nine bimetallic [C4Py](2)[(M1-xMxCl4)-M-a-Cl-b] and one trimetallic compound [C4Py](2)[(M1-y-zMyMz (c) Cl4)-M-a-M-b] (M=Co, Cu, Mn; x=0.25, 0.50 or 0.75 and y=z=0.33), were synthesized and their structure and thermal and electrochemical properties were studied. All compounds are ionic liquids (ILs) with melting points between 69 and 93 degrees C. X-ray diffraction proves that all ILs are isostructural. The conductivity at room temperature is between 10(-4) and 10(-8) S cm(-1). Some Cu-based ILs reach conductivities of 10(-2) S cm(-1), which is, however, probably due to IL dec. This correlates with the optical bandgap measurements indicating the formation of large bandgap semiconductors. At elevated temperatures approaching the melting points, the conductivities reach up to 1.47x10(-1) S cm(-1) at 70 degrees C. The electrochemical stability windows of the ILs are between 2.5 and 3.0 V.
KW  - bandgap
KW  - electrochemistry
KW  - ionic liquids
KW  - metal-containing ionic
KW  - liquids
KW  - tetrahalido metallates
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003097
SN  - 0947-6539
SN  - 1521-3765
VL  - 26
IS  - 72
SP  - 17504
EP  - 17513
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balischewski, Christian
A1  - Choi, Hyung-Seok
A1  - Behrens, Karsten
A1  - Beqiraj, Alkit
A1  - Körzdörfer, Thomas
A1  - Gessner, Andre
A1  - Wedel, Armin
A1  - Taubert, Andreas
T1  - Metal sulfide nanoparticle synthesis with ionic liquids state of the art and future perspectives
JF  - ChemistryOpen
N2  - Metal sulfides are among the most promising materials for a wide variety of technologically relevant applications ranging from energy to environment and beyond. Incidentally, ionic liquids (ILs) have been among the top research subjects for the same applications and also for inorganic materials synthesis. As a result, the exploitation of the peculiar properties of ILs for metal sulfide synthesis could provide attractive new avenues for the generation of new, highly specific metal sulfides for numerous applications. This article therefore describes current developments in metal sulfide nano-particle synthesis as exemplified by a number of highlight examples. Moreover, the article demonstrates how ILs have been used in metal sulfide synthesis and discusses the benefits of using ILs over more traditional approaches. Finally, the article demonstrates some technological challenges and how ILs could be used to further advance the production and specific property engineering of metal sulfide nanomaterials, again based on a number of selected examples.
KW  - Ionic liquids
KW  - ionic liquid crystals
KW  - ionic liquid precursors
KW  - metal
KW  - sulfides
KW  - catalysis
KW  - electrochemistry
KW  - energy materials
KW  - LED
KW  - solar
KW  - cells
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/open.202000357
SN  - 2191-1363
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SP  - 272
EP  - 295
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balischewski, Christian
A1  - Bhattacharyya, Biswajit
A1  - Sperlich, Eric
A1  - Günter, Christina
A1  - Beqiraj, Alkit
A1  - Klamroth, Tillmann
A1  - Behrens, Karsten
A1  - Mies, Stefan
A1  - Kelling, Alexandra
A1  - Lubahn, Susanne
A1  - Holtzheimer, Lea
A1  - Nitschke, Anne
A1  - Taubert, Andreas
T1  - Tetrahalidometallate(II) ionic liquids with more than one metal
BT  - the effect of bromide versus chloride
JF  - Chemistry - a European journal
N2  - Fifteen N-butylpyridinium salts - five monometallic [C4Py](2)[MBr4] and ten bimetallic [C4Py](2)[(M0.5M0.5Br4)-M-a-Br-b] (M=Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Zn) - were synthesized, and their structures and thermal and electrochemical properties were studied. All the compounds are ionic liquids (ILs) with melting points between 64 and 101 degrees C. Powder and single-crystal X-ray diffraction show that all ILs are isostructural. The electrochemical stability windows of the ILs are between 2 and 3 V. The conductivities at room temperature are between 10(-5) and 10(-6) S cm(-1). At elevated temperatures, the conductivities reach up to 10(-4) S cm(-1) at 70 degrees C. The structures and properties of the current bromide-based ILs were also compared with those of previous examples using chloride ligands, which illustrated differences and similarities between the two groups of ILs.
KW  - electrochemistry
KW  - ionic liquids
KW  - metal-containing ionic liquids;
KW  - N-butylpyridinium bromide
KW  - tetrahalidometallates
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202201068
SN  - 1521-3765
VL  - 28
IS  - 64
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -