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Ionic liquids are pretty self explanatory; they are ionic materials in a liquid state. In a ‘normal’ liquid, interactions are usually governed by Van de Waals or H-bonding forces. In ionic liquids it is ionic bonding interactions which dominate, meaning ionic liquids possess some interesting and unique properties.

The field of ionic liquids grew after Paul Walden’s observations of ethylammonium nitrate in 1914,¹ since then the study and use of ionic liquids has grown phenomenally, with applications in analytics, biology, electrochemistry, physical chemistry, engineering, solvents and catalysis.

The academic and industrial interest in ionic liquids has thrown up some remarkable discoveries, particularly in recent years, so to keep you up to date with latest break-through research in the field we have collected these high quality articles which are free to access!* Click here for the full list of free articles

RSC Advances has published a number of organic chemistry review articles covering a wide array of topics such as organocatalysis, organometallics, aromatic, ionic liquids, DNA and supramolecular chemistry. All of our articles are free to download until December 2012. Simply register online for free access.

Iron-catalysed reduction of carbonyls and olefins
Bryden A. F. Le Bailly and Stephen P. Thomas
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1435-1445

Regioselective formation of medium-ring heterocycles of biological relevance by intramolecular cyclization
K. C. Majumdar
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1152-1170

Synthetically useful carbon–carbon and carbon–sulphur bond construction mediated by carbon- and sulphur-centred radicals in water and aqueous media
Al Postigo
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 14-32

Incorporation of pyridazine rings in the structure of functionalized π-conjugated materials
Sylvain Achelle, Nelly Plé and Alain Turck
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 364-388

CO2 chemistry: task-specific ionic liquids for CO2 capture/activation and subsequent conversion
Zhen-Zhen Yang, Ya-Nan Zhao and Liang-Nian He
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 545-567

The pyrolytic behavior of cellulose in lignocellulosic biomass: a review
Dekui Shen, Rui Xiao, Sai Gu and Kaihong Luo
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1641-1660

Fast repair of DNA radicals in the earliest stage of carcinogenesis suppresses hallmarks of cancer
Rongliang Zheng, Zhongjian Jia, Ji Li, Shuangsheng Huang, Ping Mu, Fangxin Zhang, Chunming Wang and Chengshan Yuan
RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 1610-1619

Take the first peep at the 2012 organic chemistry reviews here:

Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for multicomponent reactions
Maria José Climent, Avelino Corma and Sara Iborra
RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 16-58

Cucurbituril chemistry: a tale of supramolecular success
Eric Masson, Xiaoxi Ling, Roymon Joseph, Lawrence Kyeremeh-Mensah and Xiaoyong Lu
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00768H

 Methods for SAR visualization
Dagmar Stumpfe and Jürgen Bajorath
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00924A

Enantioselective organocatalytic α-heterofunctionalization of active methines
Alessio Russo, Claudia De Fusco and Alessandra Lattanzi
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00612F

Targeted drugs by olefin metathesis: piperidine-based iminosugars
Ileana Dragutan, Valerian Dragutan and Albert Demonceau
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00910A

Aromatic hydroxyl group—a hydrogen bonding activator in bifunctional asymmetric organocatalysis
Pankaj Chauhan and Swapandeep Singh Chimni
RSC Adv., 2012, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00872B

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RSC Advances has published a number of articles displaying the recent advances in supercacitors.

Research conducted by Wei et al., University of Delaware, USA,  provide a better understanding of the self-discharge mechanism for CNT-based supercapacitors. This type of study is of practical importance in order to produce supercapacitors with tunable energy retention.

 A divided potential driving self-discharge process for single-walled carbon nanotube based supercapacitors,  Qing Zhang, Jiepeng Rong and Bingqing Wei, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00318F, Paper

Novel and interesting materials for supercapacitors are presented by:

Ultraflexible plasmonic nanocomposite aerogel, Yi Chen, Khee Chaw Ng, Wenyi Yan, Yue Tang and Wenlong Cheng
RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00532D, Paper

Controllable synthesis of ZnO-based core/shell nanorods and core/shell nanotubes, Zi-Long Wang, Rui Guo, Gao-Ren Li, Liang-Xin Ding, Yan-Nan Ou and Ye-Xiang Tong, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 48-51, Communication

An electrochemically formed three-dimensional structure of polypyrrole/graphene nanoplatelets for high-performance supercapacitors, Peng Si, Shujiang Ding, Xiong-Wen (David) Lou and Dong-Hwan Kim, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C1RA00519G, Paper 

Sequential crystallization of sea urchin-like bimetallic (Ni, Co) carbonate hydroxide and its morphology conserved conversion to porous NiCo2O4 spinel for pseudocapacitors, Junwu Xiao and Shihe Yang, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 588-595, Paper

One-step synthesis of low defect density carbon nanotube-doped Ni(OH)2 nanosheets with improved electrochemical performances, Sheng Chen, Junwu Zhu, Hui Zhou and Xin Wang, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 484-489, Paper

Hierarchical nickel sulfide hollow spheres for high performance supercapacitors, By Ting Zhu, Zhiyu Wang, Shujiang Ding, Jun Song Chen and Xiong Wen (David) Lou, RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 397-400, Communication 

Peapod-like nickel@mesoporous carbon core-shell nanowires: a novel electrode material for supercapacitors, Hao Jiang, Ting Sun, Chunzhong Li and Jan Ma, RSC Adv., 2011, Advance Article, DOI:10.1039/C1RA00458A, Communication

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