Nanocomposites and Soft Materials Based on Mixing Ionic Liquids and Graphene-Like Nanomaterials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2023) | Viewed by 193
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Interests: nanomaterials; carbon nanophase; rheology; tribology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the investigation of new materials based on graphene and its derivatives has experienced an increasing interest to the scientific community. The problems associated with the preparation and stability of graphene dispersions for final applications have been the object of previous research. Nanomaterials tend to agglomerate with a non-homogeneous distribution that can act as defects and the exceptional properties of graphene might be reduced.
On the other hand, the development and design of new ionic liquids have raised due to their increasing technical and scientific purposes. Ionic liquids are molten salts at room temperature composed of an organic cation and an anion which can be either organic or inorganic. The multiple combinations of the different types of cations and anions give rise to an enormous amount of tunable properties and applications. One of these applications is the usage as dispersant media for different types of nanomaterials. In the case of graphene, ionic liquids have proven to form stable nanofluids owing to the strong van der Waals interactions and to the hindrance of self-assembly of the plates. The advantages of using ILs as the continuous phase of the nanodispersion are wider operating temperature ranges, higher thermal and chemical stability, and negligible vapor pressure.
In this Special Issue, original research papers and reviews reporting experimental and computational investigations of new materials based on the combination of ionic liquids and graphenic nanophases are expected.
Prof. Dr. Ramón Pamies
Prof. Dr. María Dolores Avilés
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ionic liquids
- graphene
- nanomaterials
- nanofluids
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