title: Wettability by Ionic Liquids.
abstract: Ionic liquids (ILs) have become particularly attractive recently because they have demonstrated themselves to be important construction units in the broad fields of chemistry and materials science, from catalysis and synthesis to analysis and electrochemistry, from functional fluids to clean energy, from nanotechnology to functional materials. One of the greatest issues that determines the performance of ILs is the wettability of correlated surfaces. In this concept article, the key developments and issues in IL wettability are surveyed, including the electrowetting of ILs in gas-liquid-solid systems and liquid-liquid-solid systems, ILs as useful probe fluids, the superwettability of Ils, and future directions in IL wettability. This should generate extensive interest in the field and encourage more scientists to engage in this area to tackle its scientific challenges.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China.
authors.forename: Hongliang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interface Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China.|Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Organic Solid, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
keywords: electrowettability; ionic liquids; probe fluids; superwettability