Sustainable and green chemistry approach for environmental friendly analytical methods and energy storage

The analytical and electroanalytical methods which are in everyday use during the analysis of different pesticides, traces of metals or pharmaceuticals, will be investigated, modified and improved according to the principles of green chemistry. During the sample preparation many of the commonly used solvents will be replaced with the stable, inexpensive, available and eco-compatible solvents (ionic liquids). Recent data on ionic liquids provided the great potential for their environmentally benign use in almost all of the separation technologies and analytical procedures. Despite that, there is a little data available covering the fundamental properties of different ionic liquids such as density, viscosity, electrical conductivity, acidity etc. One of the purposes of this project will be to investigate some of the basic properties of the selected ionic liquids. Ionic liquids and some low temperature melting inorganic salts in the mixture with organic compounds may be also considered as a potential phase change materials suitable for the solar energy storage. The part of our researches will be focused in thermodynamic and transport properties of these materials. Low temperature molecular solvents and their mixtures with ionic liquids will be investigated as a potential media for electrodeposition of lanthanum(III) and La-Ni alloy production or suitable electrolytes for the new generation of the lithium batteries.