Ionic liquids (ILs) have attracted large amount of interest due to their unique properties. Although large effort has been focused on the investigation f their potential application, characterization of ILs properties and structure–property relationships of ILs are poorly understood. Computer aided olecular design (CAMD) of ionic liquids (ILs) can only be carried if predictive computational met...

The lack of suitable nonflammable electrolytes has delayed battery application in electric vehicles. A new approach to improve the safety performance for lithium battery is proposed here. This technology is based on a nanogelator-based solid electrolyte made of porous oxides and an ionic liquid. The electrolyte is fabricated using an in situ method and the porous oxides serve as a nonflammable ...

A new analysis is presented of the relations between multicomponent friction coefficients and hydration numbers which describe non-ionic and multicomponent solutes transport in membranes in the framework of generalized Spiegler-Kedem-Katchalsky frictional model equations. In the framework of this model the expressions linking the permeability parameters of the membrane (Lp, sigma, omegaik) with...

We demonstrate switching of ionic conductivities in wedge-shaped liquid-crystalline (LC) ammonium salts. A thermoreversible phase transition between the rectangular columnar (Colr) and hexagonal columnar (Colh) phases is used for the switch. The ionic conductivities in the Colh phase are about four orders of magnitude higher than those in the Colr phase. The switching behavior of conductivity c...

The ionic charge states of solar energetic particles (SEPs) provide information on the temperature of source materials and on conditions during acceleration and transport. SAMPEX/MAST measures mean ionic charge states at > 15 MeV/nuc using the geomagnetic rigidity filter technique. Charge state measurements by MAST for gradual SEP events suggest a continuum of charge states correlated with abun...

At a considerable rate of metabolic expenditure, the renal tubules transfer large amounts of ions across their epithelial cell layer. Recently, a better characterization of the nature of individual ionic transport processes at the single nephron level has become possible through an assessment of some electrical characteristics of tubule cells. The response of either transmembrane or transepithe...

Ionic liquids (ILs) are low temperature molten salts, that is, a salt in the liquid state. ILs used to present a very low vapour pressure and this property makes of the ILs key materials for the development of a wide variety of emerging technologies. The stability of ILs at high temperatures (several hundred degrees), low combustibility, and even the relatively high viscosity of some of them co...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) tegument protein, VP22 has been reported to have the property of intercellular transport. The previous studies have shown that following expression of a fusion protein containing VP22 it spreads to every cell in a monolayer and concentrates in the nucleus. In spite of these reports, some studies have shown that VP22 trafficking and its nucleus accumulatio...

14 The removal of the trace inorganic contaminants boron (B(OH)4 ), fluoride (F ) and nitrate (NO3 ) 15 from synthetic aqueous solutions containing organic matter using electrodialysis was investigated. 16 The transport of the contaminants through the ion-exchange membranes was evaluated in relation 17 to hydrated ionic radius, whereby a positive correlation was found in absence of organic matt...

Heart disease has long been recognized to alter cardiac electrical function. Detailed studies of disease-induced remodeling of ionic transport processes that underlie ventricular electrophysiological alterations have been performed over the past 10 years, but our knowledge of atrial ionic remodeling is more limited and has emerged much more recently. The present review focuses on recent finding...