A sliding member capable of improving friction characteristics under an environment of a lubricant containing Mo, and a production method therefor, is provided. The sliding member contains a sliding portion formed of a metallic material having a Ti-containing thermally sprayed coating on a surface layer part of the sliding portion. The sliding member slides under the environment of the lubricant containing Mo as an additive, in which active Ti exposed on a surface by sliding accelerates decomposition reaction of the additive contained in the lubricant to form a molybdenum disulfide-containing low-friction coating having low friction on the surface of the sliding portion.

A lubricant material for assisting machining process comprising fullerene.

A lubricated cable includes at least one elongated electrical conductor, at least one outer layer surrounding said elongated electrical conductor, and at least one lubrication layer surrounding said outer layer. The lubrication layer is obtained from a lubrication composition having naphtha petroleum.

Alloys, emf attenuation materials or emf reception materials, materials for biotechnology or biomedical materials, and materials for toxin and heavy metal removal, each containing a newly discovered allotrope of carbon having a multilayered nanocarbon array, and which exhibits, among other properties, exceptional stability, electrical conductivity and electromagnetic frequency (emf) attenuation characteristics. Members of this new allotrope include nanocarbon structures possessing vast electron delocalization in multiple directions, unavailable to known fullerene-characterized materials like carbon nano-onions (CNOs), multiwalled carbon nano-tubes (MWNTs), graphene, carbon nano-horns, and carbon nano-ellipsoids. Such stabilizing electron delocalization crosses or proceeds between layers, as well as along layers, in multiple directions within a continuous cyclic structure having an advanced interlayer connectivity bonding system involving the whole carbon array, apart from incidental defects.

A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided.

R.sup.2—CH.sub.2—R.sup.1—CH.sub.2OCH.sub.2CH(OH)—(CH.sub.2).sub.n—CH(OH)CH.sub.2OCH.sub.2—R.sup.1—CH.sub.2—R.sup.2  (1)

(in the formula (1), n is an integer of 2 to 6, R.sup.1 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R.sup.2 is —OCH.sub.2CH(OH)CH.sub.2O(CH.sub.2).sub.mOH (m in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4)).

The invention concerns coating composition comprising hydrophobic polymer for use as a photoreactive basecoat for a medical device or implant comprising a polymer made from monomers comprising: (a) 1 to 12 mol % of at least one photoactive monomer that is a hydrogen atom abstracter and (b) 99 to 88 mol % of one or more of acrylamides, methacrylamides, acrylates, methacrylates, and N-vinylpyrrolidone; wherein the polymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than 40° C.

A slide member is provided with a base material, a plated slide layer and an intermediate plated layer. The plated slide layer contains a solid lubricant. The intermediate plated layer is disposed between the base material and the plated slide layer, the intermediate plated layer increasing cohesion of the base material and the plated slide layer. The plated slide layer has a content of the solid lubricant in a range from 30 to 70 vol %, inclusive.

The present invention relates to a fluorine-containing ether compound represented by Formula (1),
R.sup.1—R.sup.2—CH.sub.2—R.sup.3—CH.sub.2—R.sup.4  (1).
(In Formula (1), R.sup.1 is an end group including an organic group having at least one double bond or triple bond, R.sup.2 is a divalent linking group bonded to R.sup.1 by etheric oxygen, R.sup.3 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R.sup.4 is an end group having two or three polar groups with each polar group being bonded to different carbon atoms, and the carbon atoms, to which the polar groups are bonded, being bonded to each other via a linking group including carbon atoms to which the polar groups are not bonded.)

The composition according to the present disclosure is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on or above a threaded connection for pipes, and contains polyisobutylene, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes according to the present disclosure includes: a pin having a pin-side contact surface which includes a pin-side threaded portion; a box having a box-side contact surface which includes a box-side threaded portion; and a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition as an outermost layer on or above at least one of the pin-side contact surface and the box-side contact surface.

A low friction wear surface operable at high temperatures and high loads with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime including MoS.sub.2 and graphene-oxide on the wear surface is provided, and methods of producing the low friction wear surface are also provided. The low friction wear surface remains with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime at temperatures in between about 200° C. and 400° C.