“…The obvious consequence of the rapidly expanding interest in ionic liquids is the growing number of applications in which these ionic salts are being used [ 10 , 29 , 30 , 31 ], for purposes as diverse as catalysis [ 32 , 33 ], fuel cells [ 34 ], safe electrolytes [ 35 , 36 ], lubrication [ 37 , 38 ], biomass treatment [ 39 ] and energy storage [ 17 , 40 , 41 ]. In the field of analytical chemistry, ILs have gained greatest popularity in various types of extractions, separations and identification techniques, i.e., gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC), capillary electrophoresis (CE), electrochemistry or mass spectrometry (MS) [ 24 , 26 , 42 , 43 ].…”