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Inside Back Cover: The Effect of Water upon Deep Eutectic Solvent Nanostructure: An Unusual Transition from Ionic Mixture to Aqueous Solution (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 33/2017)
Author(s) -
Hammond Oliver S.,
Bowron Daniel T.,
Edler Karen J.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201705756
Subject(s) - aqueous solution , eutectic system , deep eutectic solvent , nanostructure , neutron diffraction , ionic liquid , viscosity , ionic bonding , solvent , materials science , chemical engineering , molecular dynamics , chemistry , crystallography , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , computational chemistry , ion , crystal structure , composite material , microstructure , engineering , catalysis
Is hydration the solution to the viscosity of deep eutectic solvents (DESs)? In their Communication on page 9782 ff., K. J. Edler and co‐workers determine the nanostructure of DES/water mixtures over a wide hydration range by neutron diffraction and atomistic modeling. The mixture retains the characteristics of the DES structure up to remarkably high water levels and is then converted into a state that is best described as a simple aqueous solution of the DES molecular components.