A review on the transport properties of ionic liquids

Transport properties include the thermal conductivity for heat transfer, the viscosity for the momentum transfer, and the diffusion coefficient for mass transfer. The transport properties are very important for chemical engineering design. The ionic liquids are liquids with good conductivity thus may have promising applications in battery industry. However, the high viscosity hinders the applications of them. In this paper, we firstly reviewed the values of transport properties of pure ionic liquids, then these properties of the mixtures of ionic liquids with other compounds were discussed, and lastly we reviewed the correlation researches on the transport properties of systems including ionic liquids and the molecular dynamics simulation investigations on these systems.