Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel
Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel
news.ucr.edu Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel
UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn’t react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a “safe” liquid fuel.
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for anyone not wanting to read the article, it's bmim perchlorate, and works because of very low vapor pressure
there's gotta be many more ionic liquids like this
actual article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c04820 supporting info has some details
I'm really interested to know what the environmental impact of this could be compared to conventional fuel sources