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 ...

A quiet revolution in materials chemistry is unfolding inside a class of liquids that barely existed as practical tools a few decades ago. Ionic liquids, salts that remain molten at or near room ...

Ionic liquids have long been heralded as the futuristic solvents of the carbon-capture world: salts that flow like liquids at room temperature, barely evaporate at all, and can be chemically tailored ...

Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is a versatile "green" chemical used in producing plastics, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides, and can even serve as a gasoline additive. Yet its industrial production always ...