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Among the projects to benefit are an effort to develop new metal-air batteries using advanced ionic liquids with 6-20 times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries at just one third of the cost; and a project to produce a flow of gasoline directly from sunlight and CO2 using a symbiotic system of two organisms.

A Livermore scientist devised a computational strategy that can reliably screen any solvent, including an ionic liquid, for high C[O.

Based on the natural auto-fluorescence of plant cell walls, this technique enables researchers for the first time to dynamically track solubilization during an ionic liquid pretreatment of a biomass sample, and to accurately and quickly assess the liquid's performance without the need of labor-intensive and time-consuming chemical and immunological labeling.

But the fluids, developed by a team at Queen's University Ionic Liquid Laboratories Research Centre, can break through the protective film.

The yield increased to 95% when the reaction was performed in ionic liquid [bmim]Br (0.

The ionic liquid was supplied by EMD Chemicals, Inc.

The material is made by grinding carbon nanotubes, or tube-shaped carbon molecules, with an ionic liquid and adding it to rubber.

Starck, Heliatek, Ionic Liquids, Konarka, Matsushita, Merck/EMD, Peccell, Schott, Sharp, Solaris Nanosciences, Solarmer, Solaronix and others.