Self-Healing Ionic Liquid Lubricants. Aims: This project aims to develop environmentally-friendly lubricants for high vacuum and high temperature applications. Significance: By combining the novel p

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Self-Healing Ionic Liquid Lubricants. Aims: This project aims to develop environmentally-friendly lubricants for high vacuum and high temperature applications. Significance: By combining the novel properties of ionic liquids and self-assembled of molecular bilayers, this project will create new fundamental understanding of how ionic liquid structure and intermolecular forces affect dynamic amphiphile assembly structure. Expected Outcomes: This new understanding will establish the design rules for creating new, environmentally-benign lubricants. Benefits: This will address the urgent need to replace toxic components of current generation liquid lubricants to create safer, longer-lasting, more energy-efficient formulations effective over a wide range of operating conditions.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3406 - Physical Chemistry. Lead: Prof Gregory Warr