Renewable lubricants with tailored molecular architecture
Better specifications can be achieved with synthetic base oils, such as poly-α-olefins (PAOs; Fig. 1A), alkylbenzenes, polyalkylenes, and synthetic esters ().However, selectively tuning their molecular size and architecture is challenging ().For example, cationic oligomerization of linear α-olefins (C 8 –C 12 olefins), using homogeneous acid …