“…Both cationic and anionic SAIL have been designed and investigated for their self‐assembly by changing the alkyl chain length, charged head group structure, functional groups, and counterions (Anouti et al, ; Baker et al, ; Blesic et al, , ; Galgano and El Seoud, ; García et al, ; Pillai et al, ; Rao et al, ; Šarac et al, ; Singh et al, ; Wang et al, ; Wang and Wang, ). The high tunability of IL opens up a broad range of applications for SAIL such as in micellar catalysis (Adam et al, ; Bica et al, ; Cognini et al, ) and in analytical chemistry and separation science (de Faria et al, ; Pino et al, ; Ressman et al, ). It was also demonstrated that some SAIL can be effective alternatives to the surfactants commonly used in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes with important advantages over the traditional surfactants and polymer‐flooding methods (Bera and Belhaj, ; Lago et al, ; Zhou et al, ).…”