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2008, 112, 4164-4166 Published on Web 03/15/2008
The Smallest Amphiphiles: Nanostructure in Protic Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids with Short Alkyl Groups Rob Atkin*,† and Gregory G. Warr School of Chemistry, Building F11, The UniVersity of Sydney, 2006 Australia ReceiVed: February 8, 2008; In Final Form: March 3, 2008
Room-temperature ionic liquids (ILs) are low-melting-point organic salts that, until recently, were thought to have homogeneous microstructure. In this work, we investigate nanoscale segregation of short (
