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Ionic Liquids: The Smart Materials in Process Industry

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It is mainly considered that the chemical process and allied industries are responsible for environmental pollution. It is true to some extent; hence it is the role of scientists and engineers to fulfill the social expectations by providing sustainable design and development of chemical processes so that there must be less generation of hazardous materials and hence less negative impact on environment. Ionic Liquids (ILs) and IL-based materials are the promising alternative to conventional and traditional materials. ILs and IL-based materials have been emerged as smart materials in process industry because of many unique properties of ionic liquids such as almost zero vapor pressure, non-flammability, and tunable physiochemical properties for a particular application. The basic properties which can be tuned for specific applications are thermal phase behavior, thermal stability, viscosity, conductivity, etc.

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Wasewar, K.L. (2022). Ionic Liquids: The Smart Materials in Process Industry. In: Hussain, C.M., Di Sia, P. (eds) Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58675-1_126-1

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