Anti-icing coating is one of the recent hot topics in industrial applications as well as from the
academic viewpoint. Icing is one of the major problem on various substrates such as glass …

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 …

Passive anti-icing and active anti-icing/de-icing were two major strategies to suppress icing
on surfaces. Combining these two strategies and making full use of various energies can …

Motivated by the concept of energy-optimized air/space vehicles, the design of more-electric
and all-electric vehicles has become increasingly popular. With the advance of micro-electro …

Hypothesis Ice adhesion to solids, being affected by the ice/solid intermolecular interactions
and structure of ice surface layer is dependent on temperature, and ice surface layer …

In nature, many biological organisms have developed the exceptional antifreezing ability to
survive in extremely cold environments. Inspired by the freeze resistance of these …

Ice accretion on exposed surfaces is unavoidable as time elapses and temperature lowers
sufficiently in nature, causing detrimental impacts on the normal performance of devices and …

The formation and accumulation of ice on the surfaces of outdoor equipment is a common
and unavoidable phenomenon, and causes much inconvenience to human life and …

With the development of material engineering and coating industries, superhydrophobic
coatings with exceptional water repellence have increasingly come into researchers' …

In today's era, additive manufacturing (AM) is attracting unparalleled attention across the
globe. From initial obscurity, today there is practically no sphere of life untouched by this …