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ArticleACS applied materials & interfaces2026

Elucidating the Microscale Behavior and Phase Separation Kinetics of Thermally Responsive Ionic Liquid-Water Mixtures.

Ahmed Mahfouz, Jordan D Kocher, Andrew Z Haddad, Akanksha K Menon

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Ahmed MahfouzGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-0806
Jordan D KocherGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.
Andrew Z HaddadEnergy Storage and Distributed Resources Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9206-3505
Akanksha K MenonGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1979-507X

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Abstract

Thermally responsive ionic liquids (ILs) exhibit liquid-liquid phase separation into a water-rich (WR) and ionic-liquid-rich (ILR) phase when heated above a lower critical solution temperature (LCST). This phase behavior has been leveraged for applications ranging from forward osmosis (FO) desalination, where the IL acts as a draw solute, to refrigeration and dehumidification cycles, where the IL acts as a liquid desiccant. While significant effort has been devoted to characterizing the thermodynamic and thermophysical properties of LCST ILs, their phase separation kinetics have not been investigated. In this work, we describe the macroscale phase separation kinetics (phase separation time) by gleaning insight into the microscale colloidal behavior of aqueous mixtures of four different materials, P

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colloidal aggregatesdesalinationkineticsLCSTphase separationthermally responsive ILs

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