@article{d853d5ade9f0420eb303ac517466d96a,
title = "Mixing oil and water with ionic liquids: Bicontinuous microemulsions under confinement",
abstract = "We report the structural transition of a phosphonium ionic liquid-based microemulsion from the bulk to nanoconfined between atomically flat micas. Upon the nanoconfinement, we observed a firmly surface-adsorbed ionic liquid film that stabilizes the nanoconfined microemulsion. Further confinement (<11 nm) induces rearrangements in the microemulsion culminating into two well-ordered layers with slow dynamics.",
author = "Hojun Kim and Mengwei Han and Bandara, {Sarith R.} and Espinosa-Marzal, {Rosa M.} and Cecilia Leal",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgement is made to the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF # 57060-ND10) for support of this research. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, beamline 12-ID-B, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1039/c9sm01649j",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "15",
pages = "9609--9613",
journal = "Soft Matter",
issn = "1744-683X",
publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
number = "47",
}