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Tribology Letters
Published in: Tribology Letters 2/2011

01-02-2011 | Original Paper

Film Thickness of Ionic Liquids Under High Contact Pressures as a Function of Alkyl Chain Length

Authors: Huaping Xiao, Dan Guo, Shuhai Liu, Guoshun Pan, Xinchun Lu

Published in: Tribology Letters | Issue 2/2011

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Abstract

Ionic liquids are generally considered as environmentally friendly material. The film thicknesses of ionic liquids and silicone oils at high pressures up to 3 GPa are measured employing the relative optical interference intensity method. The results show that for the three ionic liquids the relative order of film thickness is 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([OMIM]PF6) > 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([HMIM]PF6) > 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([BMIM]PF6). In elastohydrodynamic lubrication the order of viscosity can simply account for this fact. In thin film lubrication condition the length of alkyl side chain and arrangement manner of cation are used to explain the experimental results. Another remarkable phenomenon is that even though the viscosities of silicone oils are close to those of ionic liquids, the measured film thicknesses of silicone oils are quite less than those of the ionic liquids. The results show that long alkyl chain ionic liquid can form rather thick films at high pressure.
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Metadata
Title
Film Thickness of Ionic Liquids Under High Contact Pressures as a Function of Alkyl Chain Length
Authors
Huaping Xiao
Dan Guo
Shuhai Liu
Guoshun Pan
Xinchun Lu
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Tribology Letters / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1023-8883
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2711
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-010-9729-7

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