Ionic liquids for the convenient synthesis of functional inorganic nanomaterials

As a new type of green environment-friendly solvent, room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have been attractive for its abroad applications in the synthesis of the inorganic nanomaterials. Now, RTIL have been widely used in the synthesis of nanoporous materials, nanoparticles, hollow spheres, one-dimension nanomaterials and so on. RTILS have great advantage over the traditional solvents in the synthetical process, and its responding synthetical products are also different from those of the traditional solvents. RTILs provide a new route for the synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials. The representative examples of the research to summarize the development of the use of RTIIs in the synthesis of the inorganic nanomaterials are given.