Organogels versus hydrogels: advantages, challenges, and applications

MA Kuzina, DD Kartsev… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Organogels are an important class of gels, and are comparable to hydrogels owing to their
properties as liquid‐infused soft materials. Despite the extensive choice of liquid media and …

Recent advances in photothermal anti-/de-icing materials

J Shi, S Ke, F Wang, W Wang, C Wang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Photothermal anti-/de-icing materials (PA/DIMs) have attracted significant attention due to
their potential in addressing surface ice formation. To date, improved durability and harsh …

Disulfide-mediated reversible polymerization toward intrinsically dynamic smart materials

Q Zhang, DH Qu, BL Feringa… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has
been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and …

Highly transparent and self‐healable solar thermal anti‐/deicing surfaces: when ultrathin MXene multilayers marry a solid slippery self‐cleaning coating

W Niu, GY Chen, H Xu, X Liu, J Sun - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar anti‐/deicing can solve icing problems by converting sunlight into heat. One of the
biggest problems, which has long been plaguing the design of solar anti‐/deicing surfaces …

Recent advances of bio-inspired anti-icing surfaces

S Jiang, Y Diao, H Yang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The need for improved anti-icing surfaces is the demand of the time and closely related to
many important aspects of our lives as surface icing threatens not only industrial production …

One-pot synthesis of anti-freezing carrageenan/polyacrylamide double-network hydrogel electrolyte for low-temperature flexible supercapacitors

S Wu, D Lou, H Wang, D Jiang, X Fang, J Meng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stretchable carrageenan (CG) based double-network (DN) hydrogel has great potential in
flexible energy storage devices. To achieve high conductivity at sub-zero temperatures, one …

Bioinspired Freeze‐Tolerant Soft Materials: Design, Properties, and Applications

Z Wang, C Valenzuela, J Wu, Y Chen, L Wang, W Feng - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, many biological organisms have developed the exceptional antifreezing ability to
survive in extremely cold environments. Inspired by the freeze resistance of these …

[HTML][HTML] The potential for anti-icing wing and aircraft applications of mixed-wettability surfaces-A comprehensive review

SM Mousavi, F Sotoudeh, B Chun, BJ Lee… - Cold Regions Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The supercooled water droplets in clouds can cause ice to build up on the surfaces of
aircraft and engines when planes are flying at low temperatures. The shape of the ice …

Photothermal strategies for ice accretion prevention and ice removal

T Hao, D Wang, X Chen, A Jazzar, P Shi, C Li… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Solar energy-based renewable energy conversion and storage technologies offer a great
promise of combating energy shortage and transitioning to a sustainable society. Efficient …