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, ??13 mN/m) reported to date.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding element, in particular for a stretching installation and/or a conveyor chain, comprising graphite or electrographite, wherein the sliding element has pores which have an open pore size of ?7.5% by volume, and wherein the particle size of the graphite particles used as a starting material for the sliding elements is between 3 ?m and 15 ?m.

Abstract: A composition for use in various down-hole operations in oil and gas wells. The compositions can include various combinations of certain ethers and other components e.g., esters, alkoxylated alcohols, acidizing agents and hydrocarbon co-solvents. The compositions are useful in a wide variety of down-hole applications particularly well cleaning, filter cake removal and well stimulation techniques e.g., acidizing.

Abstract: An overbased metal detergent grease comprising at least one of polyalkylene glycol and/or an acid having at least one of both a nitrogen and a sulfur atom. The grease has improved extreme pressure performance as measured by the Standard Test Method for Measurement of Extreme-Pressure Properties of Lubricating Grease (Four-Ball Method), ASTM D2596. Methods of making an overbased metal detergent grease comprising using at least one of polyalkylene glycol and/or an acid having at least one of both a nitrogen and a sulfur atom. Methods of lubricating mechanical components using the grease comprising contacting the mechanical component with the grease. Mechanical components can include gears, drivetrain elements, bearings, hinges, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: A hydrogel that adheres to the surface of materials is provided by using as constituent elements a water-soluble main chain monomer, crosslinking agent, polymerization initiator, and adhesive monomer having at least a catechol group in a side chain.

Abstract: A method of lubricating at least a portion of a powertrain in a vehicle with an electric motor with a functional fluid composition containing greater than 50 wt % of a base oil; and an additive composition prepared by mixing: a) a hydrocarbyl acid phosphate of the formula (I) to provide at least 50 ppmw phosphorus to the functional fluid composition; wherein R is a C1-C6 hydrocarbyl group and R1 is selected from hydrogen and a C1-C6 hydrocarbyl group; b) an amount of one or more calcium-containing detergent(s) sufficient to provide at least 25 ppmw calcium to the functional fluid composition; and c) one or more nitrogen containing dispersants in an amount sufficient to provide greater than 20 ppmw of nitrogen to the functional fluid composition, all based on the total weight of the functional fluid composition. Functional fluid compositions containing the above-mentioned components and lubricating methods are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The invention is a fluid having a kinematic viscosity from 3 to 6 mm2/s, a flash point of higher than 120° C. and a pour point lower than ?40° C., having a boiling point in the range of from 200° C. to 400° C. and a boiling range below 80° C., said fluid comprising more than 95% isoparaffins and less than 3% of naphthens by weight, a biocarbon content of at least 95% by weight, containing less than 100 ppm aromatics by weight. The invention is also a drilling fluid and the use of the fluid to improve the viscosity of the drilling fluid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition not containing ZnDTP but comprising: (a) a base oil; (b) molybdenum dialkyldithiocarbamate; and (c) an organic acid metal salt compound having a metal of Group 8 of a short periodic table, copper, or bismuth as a central metal.

Abstract: The invention relates to phosphorous-containing compounds useful as antiwear additive components, lubricant additive compositions and lubricant compositions each comprising such compounds, methods for making and using the same, including methods of lubricating machines and machine parts and methods of extending the useful life of elastomeric seal components of such machines.

Abstract: The lubricating oil composition of the present invention contains a base oil, a 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol (A), and at least one compound (B) selected from a benzotriazole compound and a sorbitan compound.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semipermeable membrane. The present disclosure aims to provide a semipermeable membrane having tolerance against a decrease over time in substance permeability. The present disclosure provides a semipermeable membrane containing a resin. The permeation rate of albumin in the semipermeable membrane is no lower than 30%. The albumin adsorption amount obtained when the semipermeable membrane measuring 1 cm on each side is immersed in a 0.1% albumin solution for 90 minutes is no greater than 10 ?g/cm2. The water permeation amount obtained when water is sucked through the semipermeable membrane at a negative pressure of 3±0.2 kPa is expressed by no smaller than 1,000 L/(m2 hour). The semipermeable membrane can isolate a cell from an external environment.

Abstract: A snow equipment wax composition including between about 34-59 wt % of a first wax including at least one of candelilla wax, carnauba wax, rice bran wax and castor wax, between about 27-37% of a second wax including at least one of sunflower wax, bayberry wax, palm wax, and jojoba wax, and between about 15-20 wt % of a third wax including at least one of pillar blend soy wax, palm wax, natural vegetable wax, Japan wax, and stearic acid.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of material preparation, and particularly relates to a two-dimensional clay based composite phosphorus removing agent and a preparation method. The two-dimensional clay based composite phosphorus removing agent provided by the present invention takes two-dimensional clay, hydroxide (such as lanthanum hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, magnesium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide) and urea as raw materials, and the composite phosphorus removing agent with high property is prepared by a roasting method. Through a combined physical and chemical method, phosphorus in the phosphorus-containing wastewater is effectively removed by the synergic interaction between components of the composite phosphorus removing agent.

Abstract: A borate ester represented by the following formula: where R1 is a hydrocarbon chain, R2 and R3 are independently either a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon chain, and m and n are independently from 1 to 5.

Abstract: A defoaming agent including a polymer, the polymer including: at least one first polymer chain including a polysiloxane structure represented by the following general formula (1); and at least one second polymer chain including a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (2) and bonded to the first polymer chain: wherein in the formula (1), repeating units may be in any order; each of R1 and R2 is independently a C1-18 organic group comprising no fluorine atom; at least one of R3 and R4 is the organic group comprising no less than 3 fluorine atoms; m is an integer of no less than 1; and n+m is 5 to 2000, wherein in the formula (2), X1 is a repeating unit obtainable by polymerization of an ethylenic unsaturated group; Y1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-40 hydrocarbyl group; and Z1 is a linking group linking X1 and Y1.

Abstract: A porous membrane comprising a membrane-forming polymer (A) and a polymer (B) containing a methyl methacrylate unit and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate (b1) unit. A flux of pure water to permeate the porous membrane is preferably 10 (m3/m2/MPa/h) or more and less than 200 (m3/m2/MPa/h). The contact angle of the bulk of the membrane-forming polymer (A) is preferably 60° or more. The membrane-forming polymer (A) is preferably a fluorine-containing polymer. The polymer (B) is preferably a random copolymer.

Abstract: A method of preventing or reducing the occurrence of Low Speed Pre-Ignition (LSPI) in a direct-injected, boosted, spark-ignited internal combustion engine that, in operation, generates a break mean effective pressure level of greater than about 15 bar, at an engine speed of from about 1500 to about 2500 rotations per minute (rpm), in which the crankcase of the engine is lubricated with a lubricating oil composition containing at least about 0.2 mass % of magnesium sulfated ash.

Abstract: A metal-containing detergent, suitable for use as a lubricant additive, in the form of a concentrate in oil in which a basic metal-containing material is maintained in dispersion or solution in the oil by a gemini surfactant system comprising, or being derivable or derived from, a double bond-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, the double bond or bonds of which being functionalized to carry polar groups across or on the double bond or bonds and the carboxylic acid group or groups thereof being functionalized to become an amide or ester group carrying at least one alkyl group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A gradient copolymer comprises or consists of n polymer components. The n polymer components each independently represents an addition polymer of a monomer of the formula (I), and/or a mixture thereof, or the n polymer components each independently comprises or consists essential of one or more structural units represented by the formula (I-1), The symbol n represents an integer within the closed interval [5, ?]. The average side chain carbon number of the i-th polymer component as determined according to the nuclear magnetic resonance method is expressed as Xi, with the symbol i representing an arbitrary integer from 1 to n, the relationship X1<X2< . . . <Xn?1<Xn holds.

Abstract: A snow equipment wax composition including at least 65 wt % of candelilla wax and sunflower wax; at least 20 wt % of pillar blend soy wax; and up to 15 wt % of one or more additional materials selected from the group of additional waxes, natural plant oils, and hydrogenated plant oils.