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• Small particles with a bright future

  Phosphors form the basis of many applications in our daily life. Their further development is the goal of the project "LUMINET" which is funded by the EU in the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of 3.6 million Euros over four years. For this purpose, a network of twelve research institutes a more

• Ionic liquids could aid in the delivery of active pharmaceutical compounds in the body

  US scientists have provided a strategy to improve the properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) by combining ionic liquids (used to improve the properties of solid APIs) with prodrugs (used to improve solubility, permeability and bioavailability of APIs). The prodrug ionic liquids prese more

• An experimental approach to understanding the fire hazard involved when handling ionic liquids

  Ionic liquids (ILs) have been embraced as the green solvent of the future and are noted for their operational safety in part due to their non-flammable nature as compared to conventional solvents. In fact, existing regulations for measuring the flammability of solvents do not take into account the p more

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• Enhanced Extraction of Caffeine from Guaraná Seeds using Aqueous Solutions of Ionic Liquids

  The extraction of caffeine from bioresources using more benign and cost-effective processes is of fundamental relevance towards the finding of alternative (bio)pesticides. Classically, the best attempts to extract caffeine from biomass have resulted in low efficiency and in a large consume of hazard more

• Diffusion mechanisms in smectic ionic liquid crystals: insights from coarse-grained MD simulations

  We present the results of MD simulations, using a coarse grained force field, concerning the mechanism of diffusion in ionic liquid crystals. The dynamical properties of the recently characterized (G. Saielli, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 10279) model system of 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium nitrate in th more

• Electrochemical synthesis of vertically aligned zinc nanowires using track etched polycarbonate membranes as templates

  In the present paper, vertically aligned arrays of zinc nanowires were synthesized by electrochemical deposition into ion track-etched polycarbonate membranes in the ionic liquid electrolyte 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethylsulfonate ([EMIm]TfO)/Zn(TfO)2. Cyclic voltammetry and chronoamper more

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