Extending Ionothermal Synthesis

离子液体合成是在材料合成中使用离子液体作为溶剂（并且还可能作为结构导向剂）。我们在过去两年左右的时间里开发了这种新方法。在离子交换合成中，反应发生在离子环境中，这将其与其中溶剂主要是分子的水热或溶剂热技术区分开来。到目前为止，我们所有的工作都集中在多孔材料的制备上，我们有一个EPSRC资助，正在进行开发这种专门针对沸石和其他多孔固体的合成方法（EP/C 006526“沸石和沸石类似物的离子合成”）。在这个建议中，我们的目标是扩大离子合成远离多孔固体，以确定其在合成无孔无机和无机-有机杂化材料的潜力。

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.