Ionic liquid lubricants: When chemistry meets tribology

M Cai, Q Yu, W Liu, F Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) have emerged as potential lubricants in 2001. Subsequently, there has
been tremendous research interest in ILs from the tribology society since their discovery as …

Ionic liquids as lubricant additives: a review

Y Zhou, J Qu - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
In pursuit of energy efficiency and durability throughout human history, advances in
lubricants have always played important roles. Ionic liquids (ILs) are room-temperature …

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 …

Synergistic effects of hexagonal boron nitride nanoparticles and phosphonium ionic liquids as hybrid lubricant additives

KI Nasser, JML del Río, ER López… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hybrid nanostructure combinations of ionic liquids (ILs) and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)
nanosheets are proposed as additives to lubricants to enhance their tribological …

Ionic liquid lubrication of stainless steel: friction is inversely correlated with interfacial liquid nanostructure

PK Cooper, CJ Wear, H Li, R Atkin - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used to measure the friction of a stainless steel surface
lubricated with six different ionic liquids (ILs). The measurements reveal that, contrary to …

Are ionic liquids good boundary lubricants? A molecular perspective

R Lhermerout, C Diederichs, S Perkin - Lubricants, 2018 - mdpi.com
The application of ionic liquids as lubricants has attracted substantial interest over the past
decade and this has produced a rich literature. The aim of this review is to summarize the …

[HTML][HTML] Surface-active ionic liquids as lubricant additives to hexadecane and diethyl succinate

JJ Buzolic, H Li, ZM Aman, DS Silvester… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of surface-active ionic liquids (SAILs) as lubricant additives in both polar
and apolar base liquids has been investigated on stainless steel surfaces at both …

[HTML][HTML] Recent understanding of solid-liquid friction in ionic liquids

Y He, H Li, C Qu, W Cao, M Ma - Green Chemical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstracts Ionic liquids (ILs)-solid interfacial phenomenon is undoubtedly one of the topic
issues in energy related fields, especially bringing great challenges in the development of …

Tribological performance of ionic liquids as additives of water-based cutting fluids

I Del Sol, AJ Gámez, A Rivero, P Iglesias - Wear, 2019 - Elsevier
Dry machining of aluminum parts has been the most eco-friendly method in an attempt to
reduce the use of mineral-based lubricants and other working fluids. The drawbacks of dry …

Tribotronic control of friction in oil-based lubricants with ionic liquid additives

PK Cooper, H Li, MW Rutland, GB Webber… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) reveals that tribotronic control of friction using an external
potential applied to a gold surface is possible for ionic liquid (IL) concentrations as low as 5 …