The problem of surface icing poses a serious threat to people's economy and safety,
especially in the fields of aerospace, wind power generation and circuit transmission. Super …

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

The inclusion of photovoltaic (PV) technologies add extra functionalities in a building by
replacing the conventional structural material and harnessing benign electricity aesthetically …

Ice accretion has adverse effects on a range of commercial and residential activities. The
force required to remove ice from a surface is typically considered to scale with the iced …

Superhydrophobicity is the tendency of a surface to repel water drops. A surface is qualified
as a superhydrophobic surface only if the surface possesses a high apparent contact angle …

Ice accretion may cause malfunction or serious performance degradation in outdoor facilities
and structures, such as aircraft, ship, locks and dams, offshore platforms, solar panels, wind …

Passive anti-icing surfaces, or icephobic surfaces, are an area of great interest because of
their significant economic, energy and safety implications in the prevention and easy …

Ice accretion has a negative impact on critical infrastructure, as well as a range of
commercial and residential activities. Icephobic surfaces are defined by an ice adhesion …

Water freezing remains a perennial topic of great relevance to many important aspects of our
lives; from the climate to human society and from economics to medicine, frozen water …

Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …