Icephobic materials can prevent or reduce ice formation, eg by ensuring easy detachment, a
desirable property for those applications where ice accumulation is critical to human safety …

Hypothesis Soft materials are promising candidates for designing passive de-icing systems.
It is unclear whether low adhesion on soft surfaces is due to elasticity or lubrication, and how …

Snow accumulation on photovoltaic modules, wind turbines, bridge cables, vehicles, and
roads causes significant economic and safety issues. Here, an extremely durable and …

The interest in the development of icephobic surfaces has pushed towards the definition of
standardized processes and parameters to assess ice adhesion, with the ambition of …

Hypothesis Relating surface characteristics (especially wetting and topography) and ice
adhesion strength (IAS) have a long history. Several wetting parameters correlated with IAS …

Despite the significant interest of researchers, icing of aircraft, vehicles, ships, and
equipment of offshore oil structures remains to be an urgent problem. This paper considers …

Несмотря на значительный интерес исследователей, обледенение летательных
аппаратов, автотранспорта, судов и оборудования при морской нефтедобыче остается …

There exists a plethora of ice adhesion testing methods such as centrifuge-based methods,
push/pull methods, and lap joint shear tests. However, these methods often cannot be done …