In a milestone for the industrialization of ionic liquids, Chevron has started up an alkylation unit at its Salt Lake City refinery that uses an ionic liquid catalyst instead of the traditional ...

Aromatic compounds especially BTX (i.e., benzene, toluene, and xylenes) and ethyl benzene are valuable raw materials in the petrochemical industries 1. In addition, the reduction of sulfur, nitrogen, ...

Ionic conduction plays a vital role in biological systems, energy storage and ionotronic devices. Polyelectrolyte elastomers have attracted growing interest as solid-state single-ion conductors due to ...