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Improved Ionic Liquids as Space Lubricants Project

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

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a one-off release of a single dataset

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Not Applicable

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Creative Commons CCZero

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Description

Ionic liquids are candidate lubricant materials. However for application in low temperature space mechanisms their lubrication performance needs to be enhanced. UES Inc in collaboration with Covalent Technologies Inc propose to improve the tribological (lubrication) characteristics of the appropriate ionic liquids through formulation with innovative additive technology. The formulated ionic liquids will be thoroughly characterized to demonstrate their extremely low volatility and non-corrosive extreme pressure anti wear characteristics. The performance of the formulated ionic liquids will be ranked. Highly ranked formulations will be further optimized in Phase II.