In March 2003, ionic liquids came of age with the announcement of BASIL, the first industrial process based on room-temperature ionic liquid technology.
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Seddon, K. A taste of the future. Nature Mater 2, 363–365 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat907
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