1. Field of Invention
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to nano-lubrication, that is lubrication using nano-materials. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to preparation of surfaces to be lubricated to enhance the effectiveness of intended nano-lubrication.
2. Description of Related Art
Nano-materials have been developed and used for lubrication and other purposes. Nano-materials have also been used with other materials for lubrication and other purposes. However, this knowledge is still in its infancy and a need exists to enhance the effectiveness of nano-lubrication.
Embodiments of the present invention may provide textured surfaces to be lubricated, the texturing to enhance the effectiveness of the intended nano-lubrication. The word “texture” refers to a physical and/or chemical patterning on the surfaces to be lubricated, also referred to herein as the application surface or the substrate. The texturing may make asperities and depressions in the surface to be lubricated with or without chemical functionalization. This texturing may be executed, for example, by chemical etching, laser etching, mechanical machining or other techniques. This texturing may create locations in the lubricated surface to hold or anchor the intended nano-lubricants, to facilitate the creation of a lubricating tribo-film on the application surface when the surface is used under pressure, temperature and other stress factors, and resulting in delivery of multiple chemistries from the nano-lubricant.
In non-limiting embodiment, a textured surface and a method of making a textured surface according to the present disclosure comprises a surface with textured features and methods of making the textured features. The textured features are adapted to enhance the effectiveness of a nano-particle lubricant. In a non-limiting embodiment the features are formed by one or more processes selected from the group consisting of etching, chemical etching, chemical functionalization, laser etching, laser blasting, sand blasting, physical etching, mechanical etching, top down processes, bottom up processes, chemical texturing, physical texturing, mechanical texturing, stamping, laser texturing, vapor deposition, plasma deposition, electroplating, self assembly, directed assembly, subtractive manufacturing, additive manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing, and other deposition. The textured features may comprise at least one feature selected from the group consisting of pores, waves, striations, channels, protrusions, asperities, depressions, grooves, holes, low points, high points, cracks, low areas, high areas, exposed sandwiched layers, and chemically functional material.
A nano-particle lubricant is in contact with the textured features of the textured surface in a position to lubricate the surface. In non-limiting embodiments, the nano-particle lubricant comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of: (i) solid nano-particles, (ii) a layered nano-particle macro-composition, (iii) a bonded plurality of layered nano-particle macro-compositions, (iv) nanoparticles having an open-ended architecture and comprising an organic medium intercalated in the nanoparticle, (v) a nanoparticle inner nucleus, an intermediate layer around the nucleus, and an outer layer intercalated with the nucleus or encapsulating the nucleus and the intermediate layer, and (vi) a plurality of nanoparticle inner nuclei, on each nucleus, an outer layer intercalated with the nucleus or encapsulating the nucleus, the layer with the nucleus forming a layered nanoparticle, and a plurality of bonds, each bond bonded to at least two of the layered nanoparticles, such that each layered nanoparticle is bonded to at least one other of the layered nanoparticles by a bond.
In a non-limiting embodiment according to the present disclosure, a tribo-film is in contact with the textured features of the textured surface in a position to lubricate the surface. In another non-limiting embodiment according to the present disclosure, the tribo-film comprises at least one of a phosphorus-containing compound, a phosphide, a boron containing compound, and a boride. In still another non-limiting embodiment, the tribo-film comprises at least a component of the nano-particle lubricant. According to non-limiting aspects of the present disclosure, the size of one or more of the textured features is a multiple of the size of a unit of the nano-particle lubricant, and the surface comprises a substrate with a layer of material deposited over the substrate, where the textured features expose parts of the substrate.
Embodiments of the present invention are described herein, by way of example, in conjunction with the following figures.
Embodiments of the present invention may provide textured surfaces to be lubricated, the texturing to enhance the effectiveness of the intended nano-lubrication. The texturing may make asperities and depressions in the surface to be lubricated that can mechanically anchor or mechanically interlock the nano-lubricant to the surface. Texturing may also include chemical functionalization of all or a portion of the application surface, and the chemical functionalization may be directed to various patterns on the application surface. The term “chemical functionalization” as used herein refers to the attachment or bonding of various chemical groups to the application surface, wherein the functionalized surface can then form chemical bonds with suitably chemically functionalized nano-lubricants.
In non-limiting embodiments, this texturing may be executed, for example, by one or more of etching, chemical etching, chemical functionalization, laser etching, laser blasting, sand blasting, physical etching, mechanical etching, top down processes, bottom up processes, chemical texturing, physical texturing, mechanical texturing, stamping, laser texturing, vapor deposition, plasma deposition, electroplating, self assembly, directed assembly, subtractive manufacturing, additive manufacturing, hybrid manufacturing, and other deposition. This texturing may create locations in the lubricated surface to hold or anchor the intended nano-lubricants, which, in non-limiting embodiments, may be introduced to the application surface as a suspension, dispersion, or emulsion in a medium such as, for example, an oil. As used herein, the terms “anchor” or “anchoring” mean that the nano-lubricant is held to the application surface through various means, including, but not limited to mechanical interlocking; chemical bonding, such as, for example, covalent bonding, ionic bonding, London dispersion forces, electrostatic forces, hydrogen-bonding; and by other biases such as, for example, a magnetic field, until the nano-lubricant is released from the surface as a result of use under pressure to form a tribo-film adjacent to the surface to be lubricated. The anchored nano-lubricant is used to facilitate the creation of a tribo-film on the surface, as a result of releasing the anchored lubricant when the textured surface is used under stress such as pressure and temperature, and results in delivery of multiple chemistries from the nano-lubricant.
In various embodiments, the nano-lubricant may be a layered or an open architecture nanoparticle, as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/160,758 (U.S. Publication No. 2008/0312111 A1), for “Nanoparticle Compositions and Methods of Making and Using The Same,” by Malshe et al., which is incorporated by this reference into this specification in its entirety. The nanoparticles may be solid lubricant nanoparticles. The nanoparticles may be made from starting materials or solid lubricant starting materials. Examples of solid lubricants may include, but are not limited to, layered materials, suitably chalcogenides, more suitably, molybdenum disulphide, tungsten disulphide, or a combination thereof. Another suitable layered material is graphite or intercalated graphite. Other solid lubricants that may be used alone or in combination with the layered materials are polytetrafluoroethylene, boron nitride (suitably hexagonal boron nitride), soft metals (such as silver, lead, nickel, copper), cerium fluoride, zinc oxide, silver sulfate, cadmium iodide, lead iodide, barium fluoride, tin sulfide, zinc phosphate, zinc sulfide, mica, boron nitrate, borax, fluorinated carbon, zinc phosphide, boron, or a combination thereof. Fluorinated carbons may be, without limitation, carbon-based materials such as graphite which has been fluorinated to improve its aesthetic characteristics. Such materials may include, for example, a material such as CFx wherein x ranges from about 0.05 to about 1.2.
Other nano-lubricants that may be used include, for example, the nanoparticle of macro-compositions described in U.S. Application patent Ser. No. 13/540,235, filed Jul. 2, 2012, for “Nanoparticle Macro-Compositions” by Malshe, which is incorporated by this reference into this specification in its entirety. Non-limiting embodiments of the present invention may include a macro-composition with a special structure. The term “macro-composition”, as used herein, is a term to describe embodiments of the present invention. The structure includes a layered macro-composition made of a nanoparticle as an inner nucleus, an intermediate layer around the nucleus, and an outer layer intercalated with the nucleus or encapsulating the nucleus and the intermediate layer. A plurality of the layered macro-compositions is bonded together by bonds, so that each layered macro-composition is bonded to at least one other such layered macro-composition. Embodiments include a macro-composition made of three 3-layered macro-compositions joined in a chain by two bonds. These macro-composition assemblies may take the shape of layered macro-compositions bonded together in chains, or forming other shapes, such as rings. The layered macro-composition may be about 20 nanometers in size, for example. The bonds of the complex macro-composition may have an average length of no more than about 100 nanometers, for example. Embodiments of a macro-composition, may be available from NanoMech, Inc., in Springdale, Ark.
In various embodiments, the surface to be lubricated may be textured using nanoscale laser etching, for example, in a sub-micron scale. This laser etching is described in a paper by Malshe, et al., entitled “Femtosecond laser-induced periodic structure writing on diamond crystals and microclusters” in Applied Physics Letters, 6 Dec. 1999, Vol. 75, Number 23, pp. 3716-3718, which is incorporated in its entirety into this specification by this reference.
Layered Surfaces
In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, materials may be deposited in layers on the surface to be lubricated, by for example vapor deposition, plasma deposition, electroplating, or otherwise. This surface with deposition layers may then be etched by, for example, laser-etching, chemical etching, or otherwise. This etching may provide a surface texture to expose chemically receptive materials in depressions or other features between asperities in the surface to bond or with nano-particles intended as nano-lubricants, to form tribo-films in the depressions. For example, the textured surface may react with phosphorus-containing compounds or phosphides in layered nano-lubricant particles, which phosphorus-containing compounds or phosphides may be released under pressure during use of the lubricated surface, to form glossy tribo-films in the depressions or other features.
a) shows an embodiment of a surface to be lubricated with substrate 10.
Texture, Residence Time, and Anchoring
In various embodiments, either the nano-lubricant, or the lubricated surface, or both the lubricant and the lubricated surface, may be textured in one or more ways to enhance the effectiveness of the lubrication. The nano-lubricants may be closed architecture and/or open architecture lubricants.
The texturing may be, for example, physical, chemical, mechanical, by laser, or otherwise, or a combination of these methods. This texturing may facilitate the lubricant being anchored onto the textured surface. The anchoring may comprise at least one or more of a mechanical anchoring, a chemical bond anchoring, or other bias such as magnetic field anchoring.
In various embodiments, texturing of the surface to be lubricated can provide an open architecture for the surface to be lubricated. As an example, chemical etching of the surface is a form of chemical texturization. Open architecture is a term that is sometimes used to refer to the structure of a material that tends to promote intercalation of other materials, or the bonding, attachment, localization, anchoring, or other attraction of other materials to the open architectured item on the surface and/or inside the core shell.
The effect of the texturing is to enhance the residence time of the lubricant at the lubricated mated surfaces, and to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the lubricant particles. The periodicity or period of the residence time when the lubricant is localized at the lubricated surface may be is defined as short range, medium range, or long range.
A Delivery System
Texturing mated lubricated surfaces can be viewed as a type of delivery system, where in the components of the layered nanoparticle lubricant are delivered to the surface of the mated lubricated surfaces. This delivery may occur when a multi-layered nano-particle lubricant is deformed and breaks down under use at the textured lubricated surface delivering, for example, its intermediate layer of phosphorus-containing compounds to the surface.
Size and Parameters of Textured Features
The size of the textured features at the mated lubricated surface, for example, the size of the depressions between neighboring asperities, may be measured as N times the size of the lubricant unit (for example, a multi-layered nano-composition, molecule, or otherwise). For example, if it were intended that a multi-layered nanoparticle composition, with a particle size of about 20 nanometers, would be used as the lubricant, then texturing of the lubricated surfaces may be designed to be about 2 times the size of this nano-lubricant, that is, 40 nanometers across a depression between neighboring asperities. The resulting density of the texturing may be the referred to as the size of the repeating textured features, or for example, the distance to repeating asperities.
Texturing of the mated lubricated surfaces may have several basic parameters. These may include (1) the size of the textured features (for example, the distance of depressions between neighboring asperities), (2) the primary and secondary order of the texturing (for example, the height of the asperities or the depth of the depressions or the periodicity of the asperities), (3) the density (the number of repeating physical characteristics of the texturing in a given area or distance), (4) a combination of physical and chemical texturing (chemical texturing may include the deposition of functional or molecular groups that would attach nano-lubricants to the lubricated surfaces), and (5) the direction of motion of the mated lubricated parts with respect to the orientation of texture. In a non-limiting embodiment, texturing the surface to form the features to enhance the effectiveness of a nano-particle lubricant comprises chemical texturing. In still another non-limiting embodiment, chemical texturing comprises chemically functionalizing at least a portion of the substrate.
Texturing of the nano-lubricant particles may include various fundamentals and parameters including (1) a multi-component chemistry of the layered nano-lubricant particles (see, for example, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/160,758 for “Nanoparticle Compositions and Methods of Making and Using the Same” by Malshe for a description of some possible multi-component chemistries) and the placement of the nano-lubricant particles on a lubricated surface, (2) physical or chemical openness of the texture in the layered nano-particles (chemical openness here refers to the tendency of the lubricant to chemically attach to the lubricated surface), (3) the textured lubricant particle bond or linkage to dispersion media and application media (for example, multi-layered nano-particle lubricants may be intercalated with longer chain hydrocarbon oil molecules to form macro-compositions or macromolecules for lubricants, as described in patent application Ser. No. 13/540,235 for “Nano-particle Macro-Compositions” by Malshe), and (4) the texturing of the nanoparticle lubricant to give the nanoparticle chemical and/or physical texture complimentary to the mated lubricated surface. For example, functional chemical groups attached to the nanoparticle lubricants may attach the lubricant particles to the lubricated textured surfaces through covalent bonding, ionic bonding, London dispersion forces, electrostatic forces, hydrogen-bonding and other known forms of chemical bond formation.
Types of Textured Features
Physical texturing of the nanoparticle lubricants, and/or the mated lubricated surfaces may provide various textured features, including, for example, pores, waviness, striations, channels, protrusions, asperities, depressions, grooves, holes, low points, high points, cracks, low areas, high areas, exposed sandwiched layers, and other features. The physical texturing of the nano-lubricant particles and/or lubricated surfaces may be executed by processes including chemical etching, laser etching, laser blasting, sand blasting, top-down processes, physical etching, mechanical etching, and otherwise.
Chemical texturing of the nanoparticle lubricants and the lubricated mated surfaces may include features such as, for example, multi-component chemistries (in the nano-particle lubricants) in combination with the preceding physical texturing features or processes. Processes for chemical texturing of the lubricant and lubricated surfaces may include fractionalization (e.g. the attachment of chemically active elements or chemical groups), using bottom up chemical processes such as solutions or vapor deposition.
The processes and features of physical texturing and chemical texturing of the nanoparticle lubricants and the textured surfaces may be integrated for a specific application and a specific design criteria, for a designed custom lubrication application.
The nano-lubricants 30 may, for example, comprise layered nanoparticle macro-compositions as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/160,758 (U.S. Publication No. 2008/0312111 A1) for “Nanoparticle Compositions and Methods of Making and Using The Same,” by Malshe et al. The nano-lubricants 30 may, for example, comprise nanoparticle macro-compositions as described in U.S. Application patent Ser. No. 13/540,235, filed Jul. 2, 2012, for “Nanoparticle Macro-Compositions” by Malshe.
The inner nucleus 32 may comprise at least one solid nanoparticle material selected from the group consisting of chalcogenides, molybdenum disulphide, tungsten disulphide, graphite, boron nitride, polytetrafluoroethylene, hexagonal boron nitride, soft metals, silver, lead, nickel, copper, cerium fluoride, zinc oxide, silver sulfate, cadmium iodide, lead iodide, barium fluoride, tin sulfide, zinc phosphate, zinc sulfide, mica, boron oxide, borax, fluorinated carbon, zinc phosphide, boron, and combinations thereof.
The intermediate layer 36 and/or the outer layer 38 may independently comprise at least one organic material selected from the group consisting of lecithins, phospholipids, phosphides, soy lecithins, detergents, glycerides, distilled monoglycerides, monoglycerides, diglycerides, thiol phosphate and related complexes, acetic acid esters of monoglycerides, organic acid esters of monoglycerides, sorbitan esters of fatty acids, propylene glycol esters of fatty acids, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, compounds containing phosphorous, compounds containing sulfur, compounds containing nitrogen, oil, grease, alcohol, composite oil, canola oil, vegetable oils, soybean oil, corn oil, ethyl and methyl esters of rapeseed oil, hydrocarbon oils, alkanes such as n-hexadecane, and combinations thereof.
Referring to
Delivery and the Tribo-Film:
It is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangement of components set forth in the description or illustrated in the drawings herein. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or of being carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
Any numerical range recited herein includes all values from the lower value to the upper value. For example, if a concentration range is stated as 1% to 50%, it is intended that values such as 2% to 40%, 10% to 30%, or 1% to 3%, etc., are expressly enumerated in this specification. These are only examples of what is specifically intended, and all possible combinations of numerical values between and including the lowest value and the highest value enumerated are to be considered to be expressly stated in this application.
This patent application is a continuation application and claims the benefit of the filing date under 35 U.S.C. §120 of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/540,256, filed on Jul. 2, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,486,870, issued on Jul. 16, 2013. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/540,256 is incorporated by reference into this specification.
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International Search Report issued in connection with PCT/US13/46964 dated May 2, 2014. |
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