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Role of INL in the HEDAsupercap project:

The research subject, Chemistry of Interfaces at LTU, is one of the partners in the project and participates in different work packages. LTU will develop novel classes of non-flammable and fluorine-free ionic liquid-based electrolytes with enlarged operational voltage windows. Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts solely made of cations and anions with a unique combination of properties. They are non-flammable, have negligible vapour pressure, display high chemical and thermal stabilities, and have inherent high ionic conductivity and wide electrochemical stability windows.

Several characterization techniques include multinuclear NMR spectroscopy (solution-state, solid-state, and ion diffusion), FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, thermal analysis (TGA and DSC), impedance spectroscopy, electrochemistry and supercapacitor testings will be employed.