IONIC LIQUID FOR PICKLING STAINLESS STEEL AND METHOD FOR PICKLING STAINLESS STEEL BY USING SAME

Disclosed are an ionic liquid for pickling a stainless steel capable of rapidly removing oxide scale from the stainless steel at room temperature without using nitric acid or hydrofluoric acid and a method for pickling a stainless steel by using the same.The method for pickling a stainless steel according to an embodiment includes performing electrolytic pickling treatment by immersing a stainless steel in a pickling solution including an ionic liquid, wherein the ionic liquid comprises at least one of an imidazolium cation, a betainium cation, a sulfonium cation, a piperidinium cation, a phosphonium cation, an ammonium cation, a pyridium cation, a pyrrolidinium cation, and a morpholinium cation, as a cationic functional group, and at least one of a halide anion, a sulfonate anion, an alkylsulfate anion, a phosphinate anion, a salicylate anion, a nitrate anion, a tetrafluoroborate anion, a hexafluorophosphate anion, and a bistriflimide anion, as an anionic functional group.