Because undesired surface icing can cause tremendous losses to human life and property,
innovative methods of anti-icing must be exploited urgently. Recent increasing studies …

Ice accretion may cause malfunction or serious performance degradation in outdoor facilities
and structures, such as aircraft, ship, locks and dams, offshore platforms, solar panels, wind …

Passive anti-icing and active anti-icing/de-icing were two major strategies to suppress icing
on surfaces. Combining these two strategies and making full use of various energies can …

Frosting is a natural phase change phenomenon which happens frequently in nature and
industry and has negative effects on a variety of applications. As a passive anti-frosting …

Overcoming ice accretion on external aircraft wing surfaces plays a crucial role in aviation,
and develo** environmentally friendly passive anti-icing surfaces is considered to be a …

The classification of silicones in the literature is as broad as their properties and
applications; in this work, we have restricted the discussion to polydimethylsiloxanes …

Ice accretion causes problems in vital industries and has been addressed over the past
decades with either passive or active de-icing systems. This work presents a smart, hybrid …

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 …

Blade icing can affect wind turbines to generate electricity. In severe cases, 30% of power
generation is lost in a year, and safety problems in the vicinity of wind power plants are also …

Considerable progress has been made over the last decades in thermal spray technologies,
practices and applications. However, like other technologies, they have to continuously …