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Viscosity is a measure of a liquid’s resistance to flow. Transport properties including viscosity of ionic liquids (ILs) are important for the design of new electrolytic conductor, diffusion-limited chemical reactions, and phase equilibrium [1]. Transport properties of ILs are associated with the glass transition and fragility of ILs that is one of the most intriguing puzzles in the physics of condensed matter [2,3,4,5]. In this entry, we are concerned with the following issues: typical instruments and the corresponding uncertainties for the measurements of the viscosities of ILs, the factors influencing the reported values of the viscosities of ILs, quantitative corrections of the influences of contamination water and residual Cl−on the viscosity data of typical ILs, effects of ionic structures on viscosities of ILs, equations for fitting the viscosities of ILs as a function of temperature, theories for the correlation and prediction of the viscosities of ILs according...

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    Siqi Jiang, Yufeng Hu, Zhichang Liu & Chunxiao Ren

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Jiang, S., Hu, Y., Liu, Z., Ren, C. (2021). Viscosity of Ionic Liquids. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_102-1

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