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Challenges in Mitigating Lubricant Foaming

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LUBRICANTS
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants10060108

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viscosity; particulates; surfactants; solutocapillary; thermocapillary; interfacial rheology; antifoam filtration; antifoam degradation; antifoam inversion; antifoam settlement

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Lubricant foaming and its mitigation is an active area of research, requiring solutions to foam stabilization mechanisms and antifoam inactivation routes. Creating lubricants with superior foaming characteristics necessitates the development of new chemical substances and a shift in formulation design.
Lubricant foaming and its mitigation is an active area of research driven by demands from modern machinery that require foam-free lubricant operation over extended periods and under adverse conditions. Tackling lubricant foaming has proven to be challenging due to interdependent foam stabilization mechanisms and a multitude of antifoam inactivation routes. This perspective briefly outlines the key challenges faced by researchers in this field. Overcoming these challenges to create lubricants with superior foaming characteristics requires the development of new lubricant and antifoam chemistry as well as a shift from the existing trial-and-error methods to mechanistic-insight-driven lubricant formulation and antifoam design.

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