Science Daily  February 21, 2022 Unlike hydrogel ionic liquids don’t evaporate like water, they are electrically and thermally stable and conduct electricity well, raising interesting opportunities for future applications. An international team of researchers (USA – North Carolina State University, University Nebraska, Australia) has developed a simple one step method for making ionogel. They copolymerized monomers of polyacrylic acid in a solution of ionic liquid using ultraviolet light resulting in a copolymer that incorporates both monomers and the ionic liquid itself. The resulting gel has the stretchability of polyacrylic acid, stronger than the polyacrylamide, and better than cartilage in toughness. […]