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Solubility of Polymers in Ionic Liquids

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As ambient temperature molten salts, ionic liquids (ILs) have attracted considerable attention, due to their unique properties such as nonvolatility, nonflammability, excellent stability, high ion conductivity, and strong solvating power. In particular, ILs exhibit high flexibility in designing cationic and anionic structures and their combinations, thus their properties can be manipulated in principle as required. ILs have been generally regarded as the “designer solvents” or “the third liquid,” following conventional water and organic solvents. ILs are useful in many chemical applications. For example, ILs are capable of dissolving complex macromolecules and polymeric materials with high efficiency, and then a further chemical transformation or materials processing step can be carried out [1,2,3,4,5]. ILs offer new progress, challenges, and opportunities in polymer materials science.

The dissolution of polymers in ILs is complex and not readily predicted due to multiple...

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Zhang, J., Liu, C., Zhang, J. (2022). Solubility of Polymers in Ionic Liquids. In: Zhang, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ionic Liquids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6739-6_149-1

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