BACKGROUND Surfaces that control solid, liquid, or vapor accretion have numerous
applications, including self-cleaning windows and solar panels; water and fog harvesting; …

The formation and accumulation of ice on various exposed surfaces are common and
unavoidable phenomena, which have detrimental effects on industrial production and daily …

Hypothesis Ice accretion is a challenging issue for various residential activities and
industrial facilities. However, most of the current anti/de-icing coatings fail to maintain their …

Anti-icing coating is one of the recent hot topics in industrial applications as well as from the
academic viewpoint. Icing is one of the major problem on various substrates such as glass …

As a kind of important semi-solid material, the gel has gained increasing attention due to the
high demand for fundamental research and practical applications. Organogels are gels …

Polysiloxane is one of the most favorite polymeric materials used in the emerging field of
passive surface icephobicity; This is due to its tailorable softness, hydrophobicity, and …

Preventing ice formation and ice swift removal from the solid surface are essential in
numerous application fields. Superhydrophobic coating is an effective way to delay the icing …

Ice accretion in winter has been a serious threat to the security of people's lives and facility
operations. To prevent ice accretion, various materials have been developed in the past …

Ice accretion on exposed surfaces is unavoidable as time elapses and temperature lowers
sufficiently in nature, causing detrimental impacts on the normal performance of devices and …

Surfaces that can passively mitigate ice accretion have recently attracted significant interest
as an alternative to cost-intensive, active, de-icing technologies. After decades of research …