“…On the other hand, some papers have been published on the use of aliphatic quaternary ammonium-based ionic liquids, which would be expected to have a higher cathodic stability; this is due to the fact that the small size aliphatic quaternary ammoniumbased ionic liquid has a relatively high melting temperature, compared with the aromatic ones. MacFarlane and co-workers reported that aliphatic quaternary ammonium cations which had relatively short (C1-C4) alkyl chains could not easily form an ionic liquid near room temperature , as cited in Sun et al,1997,1998a,1998b& MacFarlane et al,1999,2000. However, Angell and co-workers and Matsumoto et al reported that some asymmetric and short-chain aliphatic quaternary ammonium cations with a methoxyethyl or methoxymethyl group on the nitrogen atom formed ionic liquids below room temperature (Cooper & Angell,1986;Emanuel et al,2003) (Matsumoto et al,2000(Matsumoto et al, ,2001(Matsumoto et al, ,2002 Fig.…”