“…It should be stressed that the authors employed both the du Noüy ring and Wilhelmy plate methods to confirm the accuracy of the measurements [31,33]. Although some large deviations exist between our data and literature data it must be noted that large deviations are still observed among the data from differ- [28,34]. These differences could be attributed to the ionic liquid purity level, including the amount of water, halides, volatile compounds, and other surface-active contaminants such as oxygen-containing carbohydrates and polysiloxanes [36,37].…”