“…This study chose to use the single additive blends at a constant 0.5 wt % concentration for the candidate ILs and ZDDP in both the PAG and the OSP base oils in tribological evaluation. While the ILs’ viscosity often is significantly higher than the base oil, the increase of the oil viscosity is actually rather small at a low concentration, such as 1%, based on the Refutas equation and had been repeatedly verified by measurements in our previous work. ,− For example, adding an oil-soluble IL with up to 100× higher viscosity at a 0.5 wt % concentration into a base oil would only increase the oil viscosity by less than 2% when calculated using the Refutas equation. In this study, the viscosity of PAG + 0.5% [N 4441 ][DBP] at 23, 40, 82, and 100 °C was measured to be 67.2, 32.6, 10.5, and 7.0 cSt, respectively, which are very similar to those of the neat PAG base oil (67.0, 33.0, 10.2, and 7.1 cSt, respectively; see Table S-2).…”