Entrapment of an Ionic Liquid in a Metallic Silver Matrix through Precipitation

Marie-Alexandra Neouze; Marco Litschauer

doi:10.1071/CH08090

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Entrapment of an Ionic Liquid in a Metallic Silver Matrix through Precipitation

Marie-Alexandra Neouze ^A ^B and Marco Litschauer ^A

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^A Institute for Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/165, 1060 Vienna, Austria.

^B Corresponding author. Email: mneouze@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at

Australian Journal of Chemistry 61(5) 329-331 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH08090
Submitted: 4 March 2008 Accepted: 31 March 2008 Published: 22 May 2008

Abstract

Entrapment of an ionic liquid within metallic silver by means of physical caging is described. Thermal analysis of this new silver-based composite material allows estimation of the 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium nitrate entrapment efficiency at 98%.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Professor David Avnir for fruitful discussions and his advice. The authors thank also Professor Ulrich Schubert for encouraging the present project. The XRD measurements were carried out thanks to Berthold Stöger (Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, Vienna University of Technology), and the SEM thanks to Elisabeth Eitenberger (Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, IAC, Vienna University of Technology).

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Entrapment of an Ionic Liquid in a Metallic Silver Matrix through Precipitation

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