Electrochemistry in Non-Polar Media Enabled By New Lipophilic Salts

Abstract

There is little known about electrochemical behavior in non-polar media due to lack of compatible, lipophilic salts. [1] Herein, this difficult challenge has been overcome by following a strategy based on designing and synthesizing a novel family of organic salts with highly-delocalized cations and anions. The salts show good miscibility in heptane, an archetypical, non-polar media and the electrolyte solutions show peculiar ionic conductivities over the whole concentration range which enable their application as antistatic agents and also as new type of hydrophobic electrolytes in various electrochemical devices.[2] [1] Y. Abu-Lebdeh, A. Hammami, A. Abouimrane, M. Armand, Electrochemistry Communications 81, 112-115, 2017. [2] F. Bertasi, G. Giffin, K. Vezzù, G. Pace, Y. Abu-Lebdeh, M. Armand, Vito Di Noto, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19 (38), 26230-2623, 2017.