Ionic liquid nanotribology: Stiction suppression and surface induced shear thinning

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 9967-9976

  Asencio, Rubén Álvarez ^a   Cranston, Emily D ^a,d   Atkin, Rob ^b   Rutland, Mark W ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR SURFACE CHEMISTRY   (Sweden)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; BULK VALUE; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; FRICTION FORCE; FRICTIONAL FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; LUBRICATING PROPERTIES; REPULSIVE FORCES; SURFACE ORDERING; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; VISCOUS LOSS;

ADHESION; ALUMINA; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC LIQUIDS; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

STICTION;

EID: 84863454555     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3010807     Document Type: Article

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