Extending Ionothermal Synthesis

离子热合成是在材料合成中使用离子液体作为溶剂(也可能作为结构导向剂)。我们是在过去两年左右的时间里开发出这种新方法的。在离子热合成中，反应在离子环境中进行，这与水热或溶剂热技术不同，在水热或溶剂热技术中，溶剂主要是分子。到目前为止，我们的所有工作都集中在多孔材料的制备上，我们有一项EPSRC拨款正在进行中，以开发这种专门针对沸石和其他多孔固体的合成方法(EP/C006526《沸石和沸石类似物的离子热合成》)。在这项建议中，我们的目标是将离子热合成从多孔固体扩展到无孔无机和无机-有机杂化材料的合成中。

Ionothermal Synthesis is the use of ionic liquids as solvent (and potentially also as structure directing agent) in the synthesis of materials. We have developed this new method over the last two years or so. In ionothermal synthesis the reaction takes place in an ionic environment, which differentiates it from hydrothermal or solvothermal techniques where the solvent is predominantly molecular. All our work so far has concentrated on the preparation of porous materials, and we have one EPSRC grant that is ongoing to develop this synthetic methodology specifically targeted at zeolites and other porous solids (EP/C006526 'The ionothermal synthesis of zeolites and zeolites analogues'). In this proposal we aim to extend ionothermal synthesis away from porous solids to ascertain its potential in the synthesis of non-porous inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials.