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Evolving better solvate electrolytes for lithium secondary batteries

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Dynamics of fluorinated imide-based ionic liquids using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

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Insights into structure–property relationships in ionic liquids using cyclic perfluoroalkylsulfonylimides

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Lithium solvation and anion-dominated domain structure in water-in-salt electrolytes

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Diamondoid-templated lithium single-cation conduction in solid-state organic electrolytes

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Pentafluoroethyl(fluoro)phosphate ionic liquids: synthesis and properties

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Understanding the effects of targeted modifications on the 1 : 2 Choline And GEranate structure

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Deep learning-enabled discovery of low-melting-point ionic liquids

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Physical properties and nanostructuring of long-chained homobaric imidazolium ionic liquids

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Poly(ionic liquid)s: an emerging platform for green chemistry

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Molecular dynamics study of fluorosulfonyl ionic liquids as electrolyte for electrical double layer capacitors

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Effect of Cation Symmetry on the Long-Range Ordering in Ionic Liquid Films

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Revealing the Nature of Non‐Covalent Interactions in Ionic Liquids by Combined Pulse EPR and 19F NMR Spectroscopy

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Characterization of the acoustic cavitation in ionic liquids in a horn-type ultrasound reactor

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Induced Chirality and Vibrational Optical Activity in an Ionic‐Liquid Anion

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Dynamics, cation conformation and rotamers in guanidinium ionic liquids with ether groups

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Effect of structure and interaction on physicochemical properties of new [Emim][BF3X] complex anion ionic liquids studied by quantum chemistry

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Alkylcyanoborate Anions: Building Blocks for Fluorine‐Free Low‐Viscosity, Electrochemically and Thermally Stable Ionic Liquids

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Polymer‐Assisted Supercooled Lithium Salts: Nonflammable Single‐Ion Conducting Liquid Electrolytes for Next‐Generation Batteries

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Dynamical Behavior and Local Interactions in a Binary Mixture between Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid and Organic Solvent

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Structure and ion transport in glyme–lithium solvate ionic liquids with asymmetric imide anions

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Effects of Methylating Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids on Viscosity: New Insights from the Compensated Arrhenius Formalism

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Influence of anion structure on Li+ solvation and diffusion in ionic liquid-based electrolyte, and decomposition mechanism of anion

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Unraveling the influence of mesoscale solvophobic structure on the transport properties of ionic liquids—Decoupling ionic conductivity and viscosity

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Modulating Entropic Driving Forces to Promote High Lithium Mobility in Solid Organic Electrolytes

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Dynamics in Quaternary Ionic Liquids with Non-Flexible Anions: Insights from Mechanical Spectroscopy

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Physicochemical Properties of Pyrrolidinium-based Room Temperature Ionic Liquids with Propoxyethyl, Ethoxypropyl, or (Methoxymethoxy)ethyl Group

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Revealing the Nature of Non‐Covalent Interactions in Ionic Liquids by Combined Pulse EPR and 19F NMR Spectroscopy

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Surface structure of long-chain ionic liquids: Temperature and chain-length evolution

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Structural investigation of protic ionic liquid electrolytes with sodium salt using polarizable force fields

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Ionic liquids with sulfinyl-functionalized imide anion and their lithium electrolytes: (I) Physical and electrochemical properties

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Ion Diffusion Reveals Heterogeneous Viscosity in Nanostructured Ionic Liquids

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Induzierte Chiralität und Optische Schwingungsaktivität im Anion einer Ionischen Flüssigkeit

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In situ polymerization-induced confined aggregation of poly(ionic liquid)-BiOBr nanosheets for enhanced photocatalytic activity

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Protic ionic liquids as binders for carbon paste electrode fabrication

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