离子液体是指熔点低于100℃,完全由离子组成的一类有机熔融盐.由于离子液体独特的物理化学性质,离子液体参与的两亲分子自组装受到人们的广泛关注.本文简要综述了基于离子液体的两亲分子自组装的研究进展,主要包括离子液体作为新型溶剂,两亲分子在其中自组装形成的分子聚集体;长链离子液体作为表面活性剂构筑的分子聚集体;以及离子液体作为添加剂调控其他两亲分子聚集体的构筑.研究离子液体参与构筑的两亲分子聚集体,一方面可以将离子液体的特性引入到传统的分子聚集体中,有利于改善分子聚集体的性质,扩大其种类和应用范围,另一方面也可以进一步拓展离子液体自身的应用.
Ionic liquids (ILs), as a class of compounds composed of ions with melting points at or near room temperature, have unusual physicochemical properties including low volatility, high temperature stability, high ionic conductivity and easy recyclability. Thus ILs have been applied widely in the range of organic synthesis, catalysis, chromatography, analytical chemistry, biochemistry and so on. Perhaps the most unique capability of ILs is to support the self-assembly of amphiphiles. Due to the extraordinary properties of ILs, the self-assembled aggregates based on ILs have attracted a lot of attentions during the last decades. ILs are now not only considered as important alternative solvents, but also as materials with unique and tuneable properties which can be easily adjusted by suitable selection of cations and anions for a specific function. Based on the unique designability of ILs, it will be expected to achieve the controllability of the nanostructures and properties of IL-based self-assembled aggregates by tailoring the structures of ILs. Here, the research progress of amphiphile self-assembly based on ILs was reviewed. Firstly, the room-temperature ILs can be considered as solvents to participate in the self-assembly process and classified as protic ionic liquids (PILs) and aprotic ionic liquids (AILs), respectively. Up to now, a number of AILs based on imidazolium cations and many alkylammonium PILs, such as ethylammonium nitrate (EAN), have been used as self-assembly media to support amphiphile to form various aggregates including micelles, vesicles, microemulsions and liquid crystals. Different from AILs, the PILs can build up hydrogen-bonding networks which are similar to water molecules due to their protic nature and general properties. The different solvent properties of PILs and AILs have significant influence on the aggregation behavior of amphiphilic molecules. Secondly, the long chain analogues of common ionic liquids, named as surfactive ionic liquids (SAILs), could possess in