The intercalation behavior of ionic liquids in the layered metal dichalcogenide TiS2

Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide on a cobalt tetrakis(4-aminophenyl)porphyrin modified electrode in BMImBF4

“…The influence of ionic liquids in the morphology of several electrodic materials has been described; indeed Armel et al 41 have studied the swelling effect of phosphonium ionic liquids over PEDOT, this morphology change has been attributed to an effective intercalation of the ionic liquids molecules into the polymeric matrix. Sutto et al have also investigated the exfoliant effect of ionic liquids over metal dichalcogenides (TiS 2 ), 42 concluding that imidazolium ionic liquids are capable to intercalate strong assembled layers and therefore can be used as a media to obtain single layered materials.…”

Structure of tetraalkylammonium ionic liquids in the interlayer of modified montmorillonite

“…The intercalation of IL into layered compounds has already been reported in metallic hydroxides [22], zirconium phosphate [23,24], vanadium pentoxide [25], titanium disulfide [26], kaolinite [27], MMT [9,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], and layered double hydroxides [34]. However, the results reported indicate that much more effort is required in their synthesis to achieve the co-intercalation of IL cations and anions in layered compounds with charged layers.…”

Chemically exfoliating large sheets of phosphorene via choline chloride urea viscosity-tuning

“…Furthermore, successful choice of solvent can impact its overall yield where prior studies have shown enhanced chemical exfoliation by matching surface tensions of the solvents to the surface energies of the bulk material [16,17]. One class of solvents that provides flexibility in this, and other parameters, is ionic liquids (ILs), which have already been used to intercalate graphite and other potential low-dimensional materials, the first step in chemical exfoliation [18,19]. Moreover, a similar approach was applied to BP to obtain phosphorene flakes; however, they proved to be too small (<1 μm 2 ) for many devices and applications, due to the high powered sonication resulting in nanosheets [20].…”