BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

Polysiloxane is one of the most favorite polymeric materials used in the emerging field of
passive surface icephobicity; This is due to its tailorable softness, hydrophobicity, and …

Solar anti‐/deicing can solve icing problems by converting sunlight into heat. One of the
biggest problems, which has long been plaguing the design of solar anti‐/deicing surfaces …

Passive anti-icing or icephobic superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted great interest due
to their potential multifaceted implications for the prevention and/or easy removal of …

Supercooled droplet freezing on surfaces occurs frequently in nature and industry, often
adversely affecting the efficiency and reliability of technological processes. The ability of …

Hypothesis Ice accretion is a challenging issue for various residential activities and
industrial facilities. However, most of the current anti/de-icing coatings fail to maintain their …

Ice formation and accretion have a severe negative impact, thus creating the tremendous
demand for anti-icing/deicing surfaces. Compared with other techniques, superhydrophobic …

Anti-icing superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted tremendous interests due to their
repellency to water and extremely low ice affinity, whereas the weak durability has been the …

Polymer adhesion is ubiquitous in both the natural world and human technology. It is also a
complex multiscale phenomenon, such that the solution of adhesion problems requires a …

Despite the significant progress in fundamental research in the physics of atmospheric icing
or the revolutionary changes in modern materials and coatings achieved due to the recent …