US 12,404,474 B1
Environmentally stable solid lubricant coating
Michael T. Dugger, Tijeras, NM (US); Steven Robert Larson, Albuquerque, NM (US); Alexander James Mings, Albuquerque, NM (US); John Francis Curry, Albuquerque, NM (US); Tomas Farley Babuska, Albuquerque, NM (US); Michael E. Chandross, Tijeras, NM (US); Nathaniel S. Bobbitt, Albuquerque, NM (US); and Ping Lu, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed on Jul. 9, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/767,130.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/525,772, filed on Jul. 10, 2023.
Int. Cl. C10M 103/06 (2006.01); C10N 10/12 (2006.01); C10N 20/00 (2006.01); C10N 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC C10M 103/06 (2013.01) [C10M 2201/066 (2013.01); C10N 2010/12 (2013.01); C10N 2020/055 (2020.05); C10N 2050/023 (2020.05)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for synthesizing environmentally stable bilayer solid lubricant coatings, comprising:
depositing an amorphous layer of a transition-metal dichalcogenide on a substrate; and
depositing a crystalline layer of the transition-metal dichalcogenide on the amorphous layer.