Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants

F Bresme, AA Kornyshev, S Perkin, M Urbakh - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Room-temperature ionic liquids and their mixtures with organic solvents as lubricants open
a route to control lubricity at the nanoscale via electrical polarization of the sliding surfaces …

Atomic force microscopy probing interactions and microstructures of ionic liquids at solid surfaces

R An, A Laaksonen, M Wu, Y Zhu, FU Shah, X Lu, X Ji - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) are room temperature molten salts that possess preeminent
physicochemical properties and have shown great potential in many applications. However …

High-performance zwitterionic membranes via an adhesive prebiotic chemistry-inspired coating strategy: A demonstration in dye/salt fractionation

P Gao, P Jin, R Dumas, J Huang, AB Asha… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Built upon the recently developed prebiotic chemistry-inspired aminomalononitrile (AMN)
coating strategy, a new class of loose nanofiltration membranes (LNMs) immobilized with …

Nanoheterogeneity of LiTFSI solutions transitions close to a surface and with concentration

M Han, R Zhang, AA Gewirth, RM Espinosa-Marzal - Nano letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water-in-salt (WIS) electrolytes composed of 21 m LiTFSI have recently emerged as a safe
and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional organic electrolytes in Li-ion …

Recent advances in nanotribology of ionic liquids

Z Li, F Mangolini - Experimental Mechanics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Ionic liquids (ILs) have recently attracted considerable attention in
tribology owing to their unique physico-chemical properties and promising lubrication …

Relationship between viscosity and resistance of oil film: A new way to investigate the controllable friction between charged interfaces lubricated by ionic lubricating oil

C Zhang, J Chen, M Liu, F Wang… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent lubricating materials can control the coefficient of friction between interfaces in
response to external stimuli. Considering that mechanical transmission parts are mostly …

Ionic liquids on uncharged and charged surfaces: In situ microstructures and nanofriction

R An, Y Wei, X Qiu, Z Dai, M Wu, E Gnecco, FU Shah… - Friction, 2022 - Springer
In situ changes in the nanofriction and microstructures of ionic liquids (ILs) on uncharged
and charged surfaces have been investigated using colloid probe atomic force microscopy …

Design of anti-fouling membranes via prebiotic chemistry-inspired aminomalononitrile (AMN) coating strategy: Aldehyde-mediated chemical immobilization of pseudo …

P Gao, PW Wong, J Huang, S Eyley… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Antifouling membrane fabricated via an aldehyde-mediated AMN coating
strategy.•Pseudo zwitterionic compound mobilized to regulate surface charge & …

Molecular interactions of ionic liquids with SiO 2 surfaces determined from colloid probe atomic force microscopy

Y Wei, Z Dai, Y Dong, A Filippov, X Ji… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) interact strongly with many different types of solid surfaces in a wide range
of applications, eg lubrication, energy storage and conversion, etc. However, due to the …

Surface Curvature Enhances the Electrotunability of Ionic Liquid Lubrication

Q Zheng, N Hawthorne, JD Batteas… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a promising class of lubricants that allow dynamic friction control at
electrified interfaces. In the real world, surfaces inevitably exhibit some degree of roughness …