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Takahiro Takekiyo1, Yukihiro Yoshimura1
1Department of Applied Chemistry, National Defense Academy, 1-10-20, Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-8686, Japan.
Abstract:
We investigated the stability of the liquid phase of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium iodide (hereafter abbreviated as [C4mim][I]) up to 16.7 GPa at room temperature. We observed a peculiar phase transition behavior in the [C4mim][I] sample. In particular, a glassy state was formed at ∼1.3 GPa; however, the reddish-brown precipitate was formed probably due to concentrated I3- or I2- species that were formed above 12 GPa; [C4mim][I] showed a pressure-induced partial crystallization from the glassy state. We concluded that the conformation of [C4mim]+ is essential in iterative modulation to control the environmental formation of iodide precipitate.
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