Electroacoustics in low-temperature ionic liquids

Marek Kosmulski; Jan Gustafsson; Jarl B Rosenholm

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2004.01.016

Electroacoustics in low-temperature ionic liquids

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2004 Jul 1;275(1):317-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2004.01.016.

Authors

Marek Kosmulski¹, Jan Gustafsson, Jarl B Rosenholm

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrochemistry, Lublin University of Technology, Poland. kosmulsk@hermes.umcs.lublin.pl

PMID: 15158416
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2004.01.016

Abstract

Titanium dioxide was used as a model colloid to demonstrate the possibility of obtaining reliable values of the electrophoretic mobility in low-temperature ionic liquids. Mobilities as low as -0.98 +/- 0.16 x 10(-10) and -1.25 +/- 0.33 x 10(-10) m2 V(-1) s(-1) were found in dry and wet 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium triflate, respectively. These values are lower by two orders of magnitude than typical mobilities in stable aqueous dispersions due to a high viscosity of the ionic liquids.