Ionic Liquid-Based Surfactants: Recent Advances in Their Syntheses, Solution Properties, and Applications.

The impetus for the expanding interest in ionic liquids (ILs) is their favorable properties and important applications. Ionic liquid-based surfactants (ILBSs) carry long-chain hydrophobic tails. Two or more molecules of ILBSs can be joined by covalent bonds leading, e.

Surface active ionic liquids: study of the micellar properties of 1-(1-alkyl)-3-methylimidazolium chlorides and comparison with structurally related surfactants.

The impetus for the increasing interest in studying surface active ionic liquids (SAILs; ionic liquids with long-chain "tails") is the enormous potential for their applications, e.g., in nanotechnology and biomedicine.

Micellar properties of surface active ionic liquids: a comparison of 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride with structurally related cationic surfactants.

Ionic liquids, ILs, carrying long-chain alkyl groups are surface active, SAILs. We investigated the micellar properties of the SAIL 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride, C(16)MeImCl, and compared the data with 1-hexadecylpyridinium chloride, C(16)PyCl, and benzyl (3-hexadecanoylaminoethyl)dimethylammonium chloride, C(15)AEtBzMe(2)Cl. The properties compared include critical micelle concentration, cmc; thermodynamic parameters of micellization; empirical polarity and water concentrations in the interfacial regions.