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Jeffrey Lince

Space Tribology Consulting, Inc.

 

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First name
Jeffrey
Last name
Lince
Organization
Space Tribology Consulting, Inc.
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Contact information

City
Culver City
State or Province
California
Zip Code
90232
Country
United States
Phone
4242189800
Phone (Alternate)
3103679357
 

Specialties and Services

Fields of Expertise
  • Analytical
  • Materials
  • Nanotechnology
  • Process Troubleshooting
  • Product Development
  • Research and Development
  • Spectroscopy
Other Fields of Expertise
Tribology, Solid Lubrication, Spacecraft Mechanisms, Sliding Electrical Contacts, Surface Chemistry, Coatings and Thin Film Science, Vacuum Systems, Surface and Interface Analysis
Summary
Dr. Lince is a subject matter expert in the fields of spacecraft tribology and lubrication, as well as surface and thin film chemistry. He has had over 35 years experience supporting many customers in the spacecraft industry (government and commercial) and other industries. He is a world renowned expert in solid lubrication, materials tribology, and sliding electrical contacts (e.g., slip rings) for spacecraft mechanisms.
Services
• Provide consulting services in the areas of Tribology and Surface Chemistry, with a specialization in solid lubrication and materials tribology used in space and vacuum applications
• Provide technical leadership in teams charged with producing robust designs of lubricated devices for critical applications, and Red Teams for rapid anomaly resolution.
• Coordinate laboratory investigations for root cause investigations using expertise in tribological, surface/interface and materials analysis techniques.
 

Additional Information

Experience
August 2019 – Present Independent Consultant and Owner, Space Tribology Consulting, Inc.

July 2024 – Present Senior Technical Advisor, Blue Origin
Kent, Washington (Remote contract employee)
Providing expertise and project guidance in the area of dry film lubrication for space hardware, including engines and lunar mechanism applications.

July 1985 – July 2019 Senior Scientist, The Aerospace Corporation
• Acted as primary SME in the areas of solid lubrication and sliding electrical contacts (slip rings).
• Supported most National Security space programs, and many NASA and commercial space programs in meeting technical, cost, and
schedule requirements
• Recommended materials that ensured success
• Technical leadership contributed to resolution in many root cause analyses
• Contributed to numerous successful SBIR/STTR efforts as a partner or subcontractor.
• Conducted research on solid lubrication and tribological coatings, as well as the chemistry and physics of surfaces and thin films
• PI for Tribology Section’s applied research for over 20 years
• Provided leadership in development of Surface Science laboratory facilities
• 47 peer-reviewed publications; over 35 conference presentations; over 50 internal reports
• Many letters of appreciation from customers

Sept 1986 – May 1989 Lecturer, Mount St. Mary’s College
• Upper Division Physical Chemistry (Thermodynamics and Dynamics)
More Experience
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• World-recognized Leader in Tribology and Solid Lubrication in Vacuum
• Extensive Expertise in Surface Chemical Analysis
• Technical Team Leadership
• Designing and Leading R&D Efforts
• Excellent Communication Skills, including Peer Reviewed Publications, Conference Presentations, and Red Team leadership
Honors and Awards
2022 Best Paper Award from the journal Lubricants, entitled "Effective Applications of Solid Lubricants in Spacecraft Mechanisms"
Education
Oct 1980 – June 1985 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
• Thesis: Reactivity, Epitaxy and Superconductivity at the Metal/Semiconductor Interface
• Advisor: Professor R. Stanley Williams
• 8 peer-reviewed publications

Oct 1975 – March 1980 B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Undergraduate research in Surface Chemistry
• Advisor: Professor Gabor A. Somorjai
Patents
Eric Woods, Peter Woods, and Jeffrey Lince, "Cold Spray Low-Friction Solid Lubricant Coating." US Patent Application No. US19/087,081, Applied for on Sept 25, 2025. (Patent Pending)

R. Stanley Williams and Jeffrey R. Lince, “Thermodynamically Stabilized Conductor/Compound Semiconductor Interfaces.” U.S. Patent No. 5,045,408, issued Sept 3, 1991
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (55 TOTAL)

J.R. Lince, P. Woods, E. Woods, W.H. Mak, S.D. Sitzman, and A.J. Clough. “Cold Spray Deposition of MoS2– and WS2-Based Solid Lubricant Coatings,” Lubricants 2024, 12, 237. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants12070237.

D.A. Johnson, M. Gori, A. Vellore, A.J. Clough, S.D. Sitzman, J.R. Lince,; A. Martini, “Evaluation of a Commercial MoS2 Dry Film Lubricant for Space Applications.” Lubricants 2024, 12, 307. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants12090307.

J.R. Lince, Effective Application of Solid Lubricants in Spacecraft Mechanisms. Lubricants 2020, 8, 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants8070074.

J. R. Lince, S.H. Loewenthal, and C. S. Clark, “Tribological and Chemical Effects of Long Term Humid Air Exposure on Sputter-Deposited Nanocomposite MoS2 Coatings,” Wear, 432–433 (2019) 202935; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2019.202935.

J. R. Lince, S. H. Loewenthal, and C. S. Clark, “Degradation of Sputter-Deposited Nanocomposite MoS2 Coatings for NIRCam during Storage in Air,” Proceedings of the 43rd Aerospace Mechanisms Symposium; NASA Conf. Publ. NASA/CP-2016-219090, May 2016.

J. R. Lince, “Doped MoS2 Coatings and Their Tribology,” in Encyclopedia of Tribology, J. Q. Wang and Y.-W. Chung, eds., Springer, New York, 2013.

J. R. Lince, H. I. Kim, P. M. Adams, D. J. Dickrell, and M. T. Dugger, “Nanostructural, electrical, and tribological properties of composite Au–MoS2 coatings,” Thin Solid Films 517 (2009) 5516–5522.

J. R. Lince, “Tribology of Co-Sputtered Nanocomposite Au/MoS2 Solid Lubricant Films over a Wide Contact Stress Range” Tribol. Lett., 17(3) (2004) 419-428.

J. R. Lince, "Electrical Contact Ring Assemblies" Chap. 16 in NASA Space Mechanisms Handbook, R. L. Fusaro, ed., (Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, 1999); NASA/TP-1999-206988.

J. R. Lince and P. D. Fleischauer, "Solid Lubricants" Chap. 7: in Space Vehicle Mechanisms: Elements of Successful Design, P. Conley, ed. , Wiley-Interscience, 1998.
More Publications
(Full list on request)

J.K. Wuenschell, A. B. Payton, J.R. Lince, H. Helvajian, “Laser Processing of Thin Film Sputtered MoS2: Thinning, Oxidation, and Crystallization,” Journal of Applied Physics 127, 145305 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5112785.

J. K. Wuenschell, J. R. Lince, A. Payton, and H. Helvajian, "Controlling properties of few-layer MoS2 with a multi-laser process scheme", Proc. SPIE 10519, Laser Applications in Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Manufacturing (LAMOM) XXIII, 105190L (16 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2291060

J. R. Lince, A. M. Pluntze, S. A. Jackson, G. Radhakrishnan, and P. M. Adams, “Tribochemistry of MoS3 Nanoparticle Coatings,” Tribology Letters, 53 (2014) 543-554.

J. R. Lince, P. A. Bertrand, O. L. Eryilmaz, and A. Erdemir, “Tribochemistry of Multiply-Alkylated Cyclopentane Oils on DLC-Coated Thrust Bearings” Journal of ASTM International 5(1) (January 2008), Paper No. JAI101223 (refereed online publication at www.astm.org)

H.I. Kim and J. R. Lince, “Direct visualization of sliding-induced tribofilm on Au/MoS2 nanocomposite coatings by c-AFM” Tribol. Lett., 26(1) (2007), 53-65.

H.I. Kim, J.R. Lince, O.L. Eryilmaz, A. Erdemir, “Environmental effects on the friction of hydrogenated DLC films” Tribol. Lett., 21(1) (2006), 51-56.

D. J. Carré, P. A. Bertrand, and J. R. Lince, “Lead naphthenate tribochemistry under vacuum and gaseous nitrogen test conditions” Tribol. Lett. 16(1) (2004) 207-214.

P. D. Fleischauer, S. V. Didziulis, and J. R. Lince, “Friction and Wear Properties of MoS2 Thin-Film Lubricants” Proceedings of the International Tribology Conference 2 (2000), 1109-1113.

J. R. Lince, M. R. Hilton, and A. S. Bommannavar, "Metal Incorporation in Sputter-Deposited MoS2 Films Studied by EXAFS" Journal of Materials Research 10(8) (1995) 2091-2105.

J. R. Lince, M. R. Hilton, and A. S. Bommannavar, "EXAFS of Sputter-Deposited MoS2 Films" Thin Solid Films, 264 (1995) 120-134.

J. R. Lince, S. V. Didziulis, D. K. Shuh, T. D. Durbin, and J. A. Yarmoff, "Interaction of O2 with the Fe.84Cr.16 (001) Surface Studied by Photoelectron Spectroscopy" Surface Science 277 (1992) 43.

J. R. Lince, S. V. Didziulis, and J. A. Yarmoff, "Resonant Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study at the Mo 4p -> 4d Absorption Edge in MoS2" Physical Review B 43 (1991) 4641.

J. R. Lince, David J. Carré and P. D. Fleischauer, "Schottky Barrier Formation on a Covalent Semiconductor without Fermi Level Pinning: The Metal/MoS2(0001) Interface" Phys. Rev. B 36 (1987) 1647.

J. R. Lince, C. T. Tsai, and R. S. Williams, "The Growth of AuGa2 Thin Films on GaAs(001) to form Chemically Unreactive Interfaces" J. Mater. Res. 1 (1986) 537.
Miscellaneous
MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Vacuum Society (AVS)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY LEADERSHIP
2012 – Present Treasurer, Southern California Chapter of the AVS
2012 – 2013 Executive Committee Member, Advanced Surface Engineering Division of the AVS
2007-2008, 2011 Chair, Southern California Chapter of the AVS
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