Ionic liquids for carbon dioxide capture and conversion

Ionic liqs. (ILs) are defined as org. compds. consisting entirely of ions and are characterized by m.ps. below 100 °C, with many of them being liq. at room temp. (RTILs). ILs feature often unique property profiles, which can be tuned by design, such as viscosity, d., soly., cond. or high thermal and chem. stability, just to name the most important ones. With these versatile properties they may have a major impact on many promising applications. In this context, our focus is on CO2 capture. The current process to capture CO2 is based on highly corrosive, volatile and smelly aq. amine