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Porous liquids: current trends and investigation techniques

Matvey Vladimirovich Fedin 1
Matvey Vladimirovich Fedin
1 International Tomography Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Published 4 June 2026 , received 24 February 2026
Focus article , Volume 36, Issue 4, 369-375
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DO - 10.71267/mencom.8025
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TI - Porous liquids: current trends and investigation techniques
T2 - Mendeleev Communications
AU - Fedin, Matvey Vladimirovich
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/06/04
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@article{2026_Fedin,
author = {Matvey Vladimirovich Fedin},
title = {Porous liquids: current trends and investigation techniques},
journal = {Mendeleev Communications},
year = {2026},
volume = {36},
publisher = {Mendeleev Communications},
month = {Jun},
url = {https://mendcomm.colab.ws/publications/10.71267/mencom.8025},
number = {4},
pages = {369--375},
doi = {10.71267/mencom.8025}
}
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Fedin, Matvey Vladimirovich. “Porous liquids: current trends and investigation techniques.” Mendeleev Communications, vol. 36, no. 4, Jun. 2026, pp. 369-375. https://mendcomm.colab.ws/publications/10.71267/mencom.8025.
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Keywords

EPR
ionic liquids
metal–organic frameworks
porous liquids
spin probes

Abstract

Porous liquids (PLs) represent a relatively new type of fluid media promising for many applications. Their intrinsic heterogeneous structure on microscopic scale is the core of unusual physicochemical and functional properties of PLs. Although PLs emerged at the interface of other well-developed fields of chemistry and materials science, their unique properties welcome the development of new specific experimental approaches to characterize structure and functions of PLs, as well as their stability. In this focus article we briefly overview major current trends in the design and development of PLs and discuss relevant methods of their investigation, with a particular emphasis on recent applications of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy in this emerging field.

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Russian Science Foundation
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