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US 2025/0308554 A1Published application
Lubricants and methods to determine dewetting thickness thereof
AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBala Krishna Pathem, Nicholas Ryan Conley, Bruno Jean Marchon
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Abstract
A lubricant including a plurality of segments including a divalent center segment and two sidechain segments, each including a perfluoroalkyl ether moieties is provided in which a dewetting thickness of the lubricant may be determined based in-part on a segment weight average molecular weight of the segments. A magnetic recording medium and a magnetic data storage system including the lubricant are also provided.
Claims20
A lubricant comprising:
- a plurality of segments, each linked together by ether linkages according to a general formula:
- wherein Rc is a divalent center segment including fluorine and oxygen;
- wherein each of Rb1 and Rb2 is, independently, a sidechain segment including fluorine and oxygen;
- wherein each Ri is, independently, a divalent linking segment including a functional group including elements from Group 13-17 of the periodic table of the elements;
- wherein each of Re1 and Re2 is, independently, a monovalent end segment including a functional group including elements from Group 13-17 of the periodic table of the elements;
- and
- wherein Rb1≠Rc≠Rb2.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.