Facilitated Ion Transport in Smectic Ordered Ionic Liquid Crystals.
A novel ionic mixture of an imidazolium-based room-temperature ionic liquid containing ethylene-oxide-functionalized phosphite anions is fabricated, which, when doped with lithium salt, self-assembles into a smectic-ordered ionic liquid crystal through Coulombic interactions between the ion species. Interestingly, the smectic order in the ionic-liquid-crystal ionogel facilitates ionic transport.
Materials Architecturing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-791, South Korea.|School of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Institute of Chemical Process, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea.
Jin Hong
JH
Lee
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99354, USA.
Kee Sung
KS
Han
Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, South Korea.
Je Seung
JS
Lee
Materials Architecturing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-791, South Korea.
Albert S
AS
Lee
Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, South Korea.
Seo Kyung
SK
Park
Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, South Korea.
Sung Yun
SY
Hong
School of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Institute of Chemical Process, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea.
Jong-Chan
JC
Lee
Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.|Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA.
Karl T
KT
Mueller
Materials Architecturing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-791, South Korea.|Nanomaterials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-350, South Korea.
Soon Man
SM
Hong
Materials Architecturing Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 136-791, South Korea.|Nanomaterials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-350, South Korea.
Chong Min
CM
Koo
ionic liquids; liquid crystals; self-assembly; smectic order