Ice accretion can lead to severe consequences in daily life and sometimes catastrophic
events. To mitigate the hazard of icing, passive icephobic surfaces have drawn widespread …

Ice protection techniques have attracted significant interest, notably in aerospace and wind
energy applications. However, the current solutions are mostly costly and inconvenient due …

To deal with the hazards of ice accumulation in the industry and daily life, clean and efficient
anti-icing solutions are urgently needed. Solar energy is a powerful and clean energy …

Cold Spray (CS) is a deposition process, part of the thermal spray family. In this method,
powder particles are accelerated at supersonic speed within a nozzle; impacts against a …

Ice accumulation on aircraft is known to negatively impact the aerodynamic and mechanical
operation, sometimes resulting in catastrophic failure. Recently, microwave resonators have …

An easy and low-cost new approach has been developed to create a multifunctional
superhydrophobic sol-gel coating in which an organic modified silica layer is deposited on …

Micro-nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) are considered a promising
industrial solution to catastrophic ice accretion, eg, in aviation and powerlines. However …

Ice accretion can adversely impact many engineering structures in commercial and
residential sectors. Although there are many reports of low-ice-adhesion-strength materials …

Superhydrophobic nanocomposite coating was designed using nanodiamonds (NDs) and
siloxane-acrylic resins via the spray coating process. The NDs coating showed a high-water …

The strong adhesion of ice to surfaces results in unwanted effects in various industrial
activities. However, current strategies for passive ice-phobic purposes lack either scalability …