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Keeping ice at bay

Keeping ice at bay MATERIAL WITNESS news & views any winter power outages of solar radiation, creating liquid and blackouts have been droplets that are then removed in the Mcaused by the collapse of same manner. ice-laden power lines. Ice buildup The hierarchically structured poses problems for other engineering surface is prepared from an iron film structures too, from bridges to aircraft. on a copper substrate. The iron layer So there’s ample reason to seek surface is subjected to laser ablation in an treatments that can render materials inert atmosphere to produce iron ‘icephobic’, preventing them from nanoparticles that agglomerate with accumulating ice in cold and humid a ‘fluffy’ texture, having plenty of Philip Ball environments. pore space between the protruding The best way to prevent ice from nanoparticle aggregates. This material is forming on surfaces is far from clear. then oxidized to a ‘superblack’, strongly a high-tech treatment), that can One option deploys highly textured absorbing iron oxide coating, which is remain ice-free in a high-humidity surfaces with microscale roughness rendered superhydrophobic by coating atmosphere even down to –50 °C, that inhibits the deposition of water it with perfluorinated molecules. when illuminated with simulated and ice through superhydrophobicity: The microstructured surface sunlight. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Keeping ice at bay

Nature Materials , Volume 20 (6) – May 27, 2021

Keeping ice at bay

Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views any winter power outages of solar radiation, creating liquid and blackouts have been droplets that are then removed in the Mcaused by the collapse of same manner. ice-laden power lines. Ice buildup The hierarchically structured poses problems for other engineering surface is prepared from an iron film structures too, from bridges to aircraft. on a copper substrate. The iron layer So there’s ample reason to seek surface is subjected to laser ablation in...
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © Springer Nature Limited 2021
ISSN
1476-1122
eISSN
1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/s41563-021-01028-w
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Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views any winter power outages of solar radiation, creating liquid and blackouts have been droplets that are then removed in the Mcaused by the collapse of same manner. ice-laden power lines. Ice buildup The hierarchically structured poses problems for other engineering surface is prepared from an iron film structures too, from bridges to aircraft. on a copper substrate. The iron layer So there’s ample reason to seek surface is subjected to laser ablation in an treatments that can render materials inert atmosphere to produce iron ‘icephobic’, preventing them from nanoparticles that agglomerate with accumulating ice in cold and humid a ‘fluffy’ texture, having plenty of Philip Ball environments. pore space between the protruding The best way to prevent ice from nanoparticle aggregates. This material is forming on surfaces is far from clear. then oxidized to a ‘superblack’, strongly a high-tech treatment), that can One option deploys highly textured absorbing iron oxide coating, which is remain ice-free in a high-humidity surfaces with microscale roughness rendered superhydrophobic by coating atmosphere even down to –50 °C, that inhibits the deposition of water it with perfluorinated molecules. when illuminated with simulated and ice through superhydrophobicity: The microstructured surface sunlight.

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Nature MaterialsSpringer Journals

Published: May 27, 2021

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