Water as a tuneable solvent: a perspective
Eric Breynaert, Maarten Houlleberghs, Sambhu Radhakrishnan, G. Grübel, Françis Taulelle, Johan A. Martens
Abstract
Water is the most sustainable solvent, but its polarity limits the solubility of non-polar solutes. Confining water in hydrophobic nanopores could be a way to modulate water solvent properties and enable using water as tuneable solvent (WaTuSo).
Topics & Concepts
Perspective (graphical)SolventChemistryEnvironmental scienceComputer scienceOrganic chemistryArtificial intelligenceZeolite Catalysis and SynthesisCatalysis for Biomass ConversionSubcritical and Supercritical Water Processes