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Mixtures of the two starting materials selected from organotrialkoxysilanes containing primary, secondary, and tertiary amines and a quaternary ammonium salt [(RO)3Si(CH2)3R\u2032, R = CH3 or CH2CH3, R\u2032 = NH2, NHCH3, N(CH3)2, and N(CH3)3Cl] were dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). The hydrolytic condensation was performed in the presence of bis(trifluoromethansulfonyl)imide (HNTf2) and water. All Am-POSS(x,y) structures consisted of a cage-type octamer (T8-POSS), as confirmed by 29Si NMR spectrometry and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses indicated that Am-POSS(1,3), Am-POSS(1,4), and Am-POSS(2,4) had amorphous structures. These POSSs have two or three differences in the number of methyl groups between the two types of ammonium side-chains. Conversely, Am-POSS(1,2), Am-POSS(2,3), and Am-POSS(3,4) had crystalline structures. The difference in the number of methyl groups between the two types of ammonium side-chains in these POSSs is only one. Therefore, the crystalline-amorphous structure of Am-POSS(x,y) is controlled by the side-chain group combinations. Furthermore, Am-POSS(1,3), Am-POSS(1,4), and Am-POSS(2,4) are protic ionic liquids with relatively low flow temperatures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules24244553","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,12]],"date-time":"2019-12-12T11:06:41Z","timestamp":1576148801000},"page":"4553","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Control of Crystalline-Amorphous Structures of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes Containing Two Types of Ammonium Side-Chain Groups and Their Properties as Protic Ionic Liquids"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Ryoya","family":"Hasebe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yoshiro","family":"Kaneko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1409","DOI":"10.1021\/cr00037a012","article-title":"Silsesquioxanes","volume":"95","author":"Baney","year":"1995","journal-title":"Chem. 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