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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2007
Douglas L. Gin, Longmont, CO (US);
Jason E. Bara, Boulder, CO (US);
Richard D. Noble, Boulder, CO (US);
Xiaohui Zeng, Dublin, OH (US);
Douglas L. Gin, Longmont, CO (US);
Jason E. Bara, Boulder, CO (US);
Richard D. Noble, Boulder, CO (US);
Xiaohui Zeng, Dublin, OH (US);
The Regents of The University of Colorado, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A modular surfactant architecture based on room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) has been developed that affords non-polymerizable and polymerizable amphiphiles that form lamellar (L), hexagonal (H) or bicontinuous cubic (Q) LLC phases when mixed with water or RTILs serving as the polar solvent. The amphiphiles are imidazolium salts having two or more imidazolium head groups joined by one or more spacers. Polymerization of the LLC assembly can produce polymeric materials having ordered nanopores, with the ordering of the pores determined by the LLC phase.