TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants
AU - Bresme, Fernando
AU - Kornyshev, Alexei A.
AU - Perkin, Susan
AU - Urbakh, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - 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. Electronanotribology is an emerging field that has a potential to realize in situ control of friction—that is, turning the friction on and off on demand. However, fulfilling its promise needs more research. Here we provide an overview of this emerging research area, from its birth to the current state, reviewing the main achievements in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and experiments using atomic force microscopes and surface force apparatus. We also present a discussion of the challenges that need to be solved for future applications of electrotunable friction.
AB - 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. Electronanotribology is an emerging field that has a potential to realize in situ control of friction—that is, turning the friction on and off on demand. However, fulfilling its promise needs more research. Here we provide an overview of this emerging research area, from its birth to the current state, reviewing the main achievements in non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and experiments using atomic force microscopes and surface force apparatus. We also present a discussion of the challenges that need to be solved for future applications of electrotunable friction.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41563-022-01273-7
DO - 10.1038/s41563-022-01273-7
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C2 - 35761059
AN - SCOPUS:85132865482
SN - 1476-1122
VL - 21
SP - 848
EP - 858
JO - Nature Materials
JF - Nature Materials
IS - 8
ER -