An unusual slowdown of fast diffusion in a room temperature ionic liquid confined in mesoporous carbon

S. M. Chathoth, E. Mamontov, P. F. Fulvio, X. Wang, G. A. Baker, S. Dai, D. J. Wesolowski

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Abstract

Using quasielastic neutron scattering in the temperature range from 290 to 350 K, we show that the diffusive motions in a room temperature ionic liquid [H2NC(dma)2][BETI] become faster for a fraction of cations when the liquid is confined in a mesoporous carbon. This applies to both the localized and long-range translational diffusive motions of the highly mobile cations, although the former exhibit an unusual trend of slowing-down as the temperature is increased, until the localized diffusivity is reduced to the bulk ionic liquid value at a temperature of 350 K.

Original languageEnglish
Article number16004
JournalEPL
Volume102
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2013

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