Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

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 …

Graphene is a promising next-generation conducting material with the potential to replace
traditional electrode materials in supercapacitors. Since energy storage in supercapacitors …

Using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and a coarse-grained model of ionic
liquids, we have investigated the impact that the shape and the intramolecular charge …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) force-distance measurements are used to investigate the
layered ion structure of Ionic Liquids (ILs) at the mica surface. The effects of various tip …

Water and other polar liquids exhibit nanoscale structuring near charged interfaces. When a
polar liquid is confined between two charged surfaces, the interfacial solvent layers begin to …

To a greater or lesser extent, most room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) absorb water from
humid air. Penetration of water into the lubricating nanoscale film may affect its equilibrium …

Tribology, which studies surfaces in contact and relative motion, includes friction, wear, and
lubrication, straddling across different fields: mechanical engineering, materials science …

Understanding the behavior of ionic liquids (ILs) either confined between rough surfaces or
in rough nanoscale pores is of great relevance to extend studies performed on ideally flat …

Friction is the oldest branch of non-equilibrium condensed matter physics and, at the same
time, the least established at the fundamental level. A full understanding and control of …