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Smart ionic liquid/water mixture system with dual stimuli-response to temperature and CO2

Xiaoqing Yuan1,2Ju Liu1,2Jingyu Qin1,2Weili Ma1,2Guangyong Liu1,2Yanlei Wang1,2,3Hongyan He1,2,3( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Innovation Academy for Green Manufacture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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The dual stimuli of temperature and CO2 enabled a smart and reversible transformation of the ionic liquid/water mixture system from homogeneous to heterogeneous phase. Mechanism studies showed that the driving forces of temperature and CO2 come from the polyether chain in the cation and carboxylic acid group in the anion, respectively.

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Stimuli-responsive materials have important applications in chemistry and chemical engineering. Here, we synthesized five different polyetheramine-fatty acids (PEFA) ionic liquids (ILs), possessing the dual stimuli-responsive ability to temperature and CO2. These PEFA ILs have reversible lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase behavior over a wide temperature range of 37–91 °C, and reversible heterogeneous-homogeneous phase transition towards the addition and removal of CO2. Furthermore, the droplet size of the IL–water mixture system increased from 6.5 to 21.0 nm as the temperature increased from 25 to 56 °C, and then recovered to 6.5 nm when the temperature decreased to 25 °C. The addition and removal of CO2 also reversibly modulated the droplet size of the system. Results from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra further showed that the temperature-dependent conformation of polyether amine chain in the cation dominates the temperature response, while the reversible formation of bicarbonate and fatty acids (FA) from CO2 and anion controls the CO2-based reversible phase transition. Molecular simulations revealed a microscopic response mechanism of the IL–water system to temperature and CO2, and a synergistic effect between the dual stimuli of temperature and CO2. These findings may provide a basis for the rational design and understanding of ILs-based stimuli-responsive materials and nanoreactors.

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Yuan X, Liu J, Qin J, et al. Smart ionic liquid/water mixture system with dual stimuli-response to temperature and CO2. Nano Research, 2023, 16(3): 4152-4159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4612-z
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Received: 19 February 2022
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Published: 11 July 2022
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