Wetting behaviors of structured metal surfaces have received considerable attention due to
the wide range of applications for commercial, industrial, and military uses as well as …

The supercooled water droplets in clouds can cause ice to build up on the surfaces of
aircraft and engines when planes are flying at low temperatures. The shape of the ice …

Overcoming ice accretion on external aircraft wing surfaces plays a crucial role in aviation,
and developing environmentally friendly passive anti-icing surfaces is considered to be a …

Icing accretion on aircraft surfaces has threatened the flight safety so far. Slippery liquid
infused porous surface (SLIPS) is an emerging anti‐icing method. Many studies have found …

A hybrid anti-icing strategy that combines minimized electro-heating at the blade leading
edge and a superhydro-/ice-phobic coating to cover the blade surface was explored for wind …

Laser surface texturing (LST) is a non‐contact manufacturing process for fabricating
functional surfaces in a manner that improves the corresponding wettability, and is widely …

A series of experiments were conducted to characterize the anti-/de-icing performances of
soft PDMS materials with different shear modulus and to explore their potentials for aircraft …

An experimental study was conducted to examine the effects of dielectric-barrier-discharge
plasma (DBD) actuator layout on the plasma-induced thermal characteristics and evaluate …

An experimental investigation was conducted to examine the detrimental effects induced by
deicing fluids used for aircraft ground deicing on the performance of icephobic coatings for …

A comparison study of a novel method of utilizing thermal effects induced by Dielectric-
Barrier-Discharge (DBD) plasma actuation (ie, DBD plasma-based method) and a …