title: Unique characteristics of ionic liquids comprised of long-chain cations and anions: a new physical insight.
abstract: We have designed a unique class of surface active ionic liquids (SAILs) and utilized them to prepare IL-in-oil microemulsions as well as large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs). The IL-in-oil microemulsions were characterized by a phase behavior study, regular swelling behavior, and also by spectral shift of coumarin-480 probe molecules. The LUVs were characterized by dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscope measurements. Our work opens up the possibility of creating a huge number of IL-in-oil microemulsions as well as LUVs simply by replacing the cation of NaAOT with a long chain cation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, WB, India.
authors.forename: Chiranjib
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: Sarthak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mandal
authors.forename: Surajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Jagannath
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuchlyan
authors.forename: Niloy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kundu
authors.forename: Nilmoni
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sarkar