Room-temperature ionic liquids: a novel versatile lubricant.

By Chengfeng Ye, Weimin Liu, Yunxia Chen, Laigui Yu. Chemical Communications, 2001

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Boron in Tribology: From Borates to Ionic Liquids (2013, background): “[156] have reported on BILs composed of [BF4] anion and various alkylimidazolium cations [CnCmIm] , n and m = 1, 2, 3, .”
Ionic Liquids in Tribology (2009, background): “; however, individual researchers have reported tribochemical reactions of ionic liquids [5,6,8,19].”
Water-Based Lubricants: Development, Properties, and Performances (2021, background): “, lubricants for steel-on-steel contact versus lubricants for aluminum-on-ceramics contact) [29].”
INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF IONIC LIQUIDS AS “GREEN” ENGINEERING LIQUIDS (2006, background): “…friction reduction and antiwear performance as well as high load-carrying capacity when they were used as lubricants for contacting surfaces of steel=steel, steel=aluminum, steel=copper, steel=SiO2, Si3N4=SiO2, steel=Si(100), steel=sialon ceramics, and Si3N4=sialon ceramics (Ye et al., 2001).”
Ionic liquids: a brief history (2018, background): “Ionic liquids were first reported as very promising highperformance lubricants to replace other synthetic oils as early as 2001 (Ye et al. 2001).”