Anti-ice coatings
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Transparent coating with enhanced anti-icing performance
A transparent and non-fluorinated Superhydrophobic coating was developed and applied on different substrates. Methyltriethoxysilane was used to improve the hydrophobic properties of the coating.
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Superhydrophobic and icephobic polyurethane coatings
A recently published review article focuses on fundamentals, progresses, challenges and opportunities of superhydrophobic and icephobic polyurethane coatings.
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Nanocomposites for anti-icing application
Researchers have described durable and robust PVDF-HFP/SiO2/CNTs nanocomposites for anti-icing application and invested their water repellency, icing delay and ice adhesion.
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Icephobic silicone coatings on epoxy substrate
In winter, when the trains run at high speed, snow that falls on the track is easily drawn onto the bottom of the train, and quickly forms ice. Researchers present a facile solution for the problem.
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Icephobic properties of aqueous self-lubricating coatings
Researchers describe an icephobic aqueous coatings containing PEG-PDMS copolymers. Changing the copolymer percentage results in positive effects on the icephobic characteristics.
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Durability enhancement of low ice adhesion polymeric coatings
Researchers have developed and investigated polyurethane-based nanocomposite and fibre-reinforced coatings to understand the deteriorating behaviour of the coatings under rigorous impinging erosion tests....
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Innovative coatings for anti-icing applications
Scientists report a new strategy to prepare amphiphilic siloxane-glycidyl carbamate coatings (AmpSiGC) coatings with anti-icing property.
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Novel ceria PTFE composite coatings
Researchers report on the hydrophobicity and wear resistance of ceria/PTFE composite coatings.
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A promising self-assembly PTFE coating for effective large-scale deicing
An electrostatic attraction self-assembly method was used successfully for the fabrication of thin PTFE coating, which could be a promising material for large-scale deicing.