US 11,912,952 B2
Material and sliding system
Yoshinobu Tsujii, Kyoto (JP); Keita Sakakibara, Kyoto (JP); Takaya Sato, Yamagata (JP); Hiroyuki Arafune, Yamagata (JP); Ken Nakano, Yokohama (JP); and Mayu Miyazaki, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto (JP); NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo (JP); and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/783,164
Filed by KYOTO UNIVERSITY, Kyoto (JP); NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo (JP); and National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University, Yokohama (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/044601
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/117538, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-222532 (JP), filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034470 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. C10M 105/38 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01); A46D 1/00 (2006.01); C08F 120/14 (2006.01)
CPC C10M 105/38 (2013.01) [A46B 15/00 (2013.01); A46D 1/0207 (2013.01); C08F 120/14 (2013.01); A46B 2200/405 (2013.01); C10M 2207/2835 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A material comprising:
a support; and
a brush layer containing a brush-like polymer chain assemblage formed of a plurality of polymer chains and a swelling liquid, wherein the brush-like polymer chain assemblage is swollen with the swelling liquid,
the brush layer retaining on a surface a lubricating liquid, and
the swelling liquid contained in the brush layer and the lubricating liquid being phase-separated to form a liquid-liquid phase separation interface in between.