The physicochemical and electrochemical properties of room temperature ionic liquids based on quaternary phosphonium cations together with a dicyanamide anion are presented in this report. The most dicyanamide-based phosphonium ionic liquids prepared were hydrophilic, except ionic liquids containing a long alkyl chain in the phosohonium cation. It was found that asymmetric phosphonium cations gave low-melting salts in ...