From Ionic Liquids to Supramolecular Polymers

Charging forward : Ionic interactions presented in a multivalent fashion in small‐molecule ionic liquids lead to functional polymer‐like materials (see picture) that are consistent with the formation of a supramolecular ionic network. For example, the ionic material formed from a dication consisting of two covalently linked tetraalkyl phosphonium moieties and a porphyrin tetracarboxylate has a viscosity of 10⁶ Pa s at 25 °C.