Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Glyonic Liquids: Structural Insights and Relation to Conductive Properties.

ABSTRACT: Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants that have obtained wide industrial and environmental interests with their biodegradability and great surface activity. Besides their important roles as surfactants, they are found to function as a new type of glycolipid-based protic ionic liquids (ILs)─glyonic liquids (GLs). GLs are reported to have impressive physicochemical properties, especially superionic conductivity, and it was reported in experiments that specific ion selections and the fraction of water content have a strong effect on the conductivity. Also, the shape of the conductivity curve as a function of water fraction in GLs is interesting with a sharp increase first and a long plateau. We related the conductivities to the three-dimensional (3D) networks composed of -OH inside the GLs utilizin

SUBMITTER: Hei B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898233 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature