Ice nucleation behaviour on sol–gel coatings with different surface energy and roughness

• Main Authors: Fu, Qi Tao, Liu, Er Jia, Wilson, P., Chen, Zhong
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Surface science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82709; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40301
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, the ice nucleation temperatures of 10 μL water droplets on a series of sol–gel coatings with different roughness and surface energies were obtained using a customized automatic measurement system. Classical nucleation theory was then employed to explain the different icing behaviour o...