Correlated Ion Transport and the Gel Phase in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

• Published in: The journal of physical chemistry. B Vol. 125; no. 10; pp. 2677 - 2689
• Main Authors: McEldrew, Michael, Goodwin, Zachary A. H, Zhao, Hongbo, Bazant, Martin Z, Kornyshev, Alexei A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 18.03.2021
• Subjects: B: Liquids; Chemical and Dynamical Processes in Solution

Here we present a theory of ion aggregation and gelation of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Based on it, we investigate the effect of ion aggregation on correlated ion transportionic conductivity and transference numbersobtaining closed-form expressions for these quantities. The theory dep...