Rheology of Pure Ionic Liquids and Their Complex Fluids: A Review

Ionic liquids (ILs) are liquid salts at ambient or lower temperatures and consist of ions and short-lived ion pairs. They are potential alternatives to toxic, hazardous, highly flammable, and volatile solvents for preparing solutions, dispersions, gels, composites, and polymeric melts. ILs have some very interesting and unique characteristics...

Electrophoretic mobility of latex nanospheres in electrolytes: Experimental challenges

The electrophoretic mobility of sulfate latex nanospheres (radius 300 ± 10 nm) was measured as a function of ionic strength for different salts. The results were obtained from two similar instruments (Malvern ZetaSizer 3000 HSa and Malvern ZetaSizer Nano) using the same dispersions, in the same conditions. The values predicted from the standard...