Bioinspired surfaces with superwettability for anti-icing and ice-phobic application : concept, mechanism, and design

• Main Authors: Zhang, Songnan, Huang, Jianying, Cheng, Yan, Yang, Hui, Chen, Zhong, Lai, Yuekun
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Anti-icing; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials; Wettability
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105493; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48251
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ice accumulation poses a series of severe issues in daily life. Inspired by the nature, superwettability surfaces have attracted great interests from fundamental research to anti‐icing and ice‐phobic applications. Here, recently published literature about the mechanism of ice prevention is reviewed,...