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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Evelyn N. Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel John Preston, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10M 105/80 (2006.01); C10M 171/00 (2006.01); B08B 17/06 (2006.01); C10N 20/00 (2006.01); C10N 50/02 (2006.01); C10N 50/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10M 105/80 (2013.01); C10M 171/00 (2013.01); B08B 17/065 (2013.01); C10M 2227/04 (2013.01); C10M 2227/045 (2013.01); C10N 2020/093 (2020.05); C10N 2050/02 (2013.01); C10N 2050/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Lubricant infused surfaces (LIS) can be uncoated high-surface-energy solids, thereby eliminating the need for unreliable low-surface-energy coatings and resulting in LIS repelling the lowest surface tension impinging fluid (butane, γ≈13 mN/m) reported to date.