title: Parallel developments in aprotic and protic ionic liquids: physical chemistry and applications.
abstract: This Account covers research dating from the early 1960s in the field of low-melting molten salts and hydrates,which has recently become popular under the rubric of "ionic liquids". It covers understanding gained in the principal author's laboratories (initially in Australia, but mostly in the U.S.A.) from spectroscopic, dynamic, and thermodynamic studies and includes recent applications of this understanding in the fields of energy conversion and biopreservation. Both protic and aprotic varieties of ionic liquids are included, but recent studies have focused on the protic class because of the special applications made possible by the highly variable proton activities available in these liquids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA caa@asu.edu
authors.forename: C Austen
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Angell
authors.forename: Nolene
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Byrne
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Belieres
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004573:Electrolytes; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry*; D011312:Pressure; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D004573:Electrolytes; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D011522:Protons