Anti-icing performance of superhydrophobic surfaces

The icephobic performance of alkyl-grafted aluminum surfaces

“…Relatively poor or reduced performance was reported for several types of SHSs tested under repeated icing/deicing conditions [15,16,22,29,31], which was attributed to their poor abrasive resistance (also reported by others in a concise review [32]). In parallel, SHSs were reported to lose their anti-icing performance in a humid atmosphere, when icing follows (or occurs simultaneously with) water condensation or frost formation in their rough structures [2,13,16,22,33].…”

“…It is now therefore clear that SHSs may only be efficient anti-icing materials under low humidity conditions [9,13,16,22,33], while their use as universal remedy for ice accretion, i.e. under a very wide range of atmospheric conditions, may be very limited [1,2,13,16,22,33]. In a similar way, a recent study reported by Rykaczewski and coauthors [34] also raised doubts about the universal use of another class of rough anti-icing materials, i.e.…”

“…The design and use of surfaces/coatings with minimum ice adherence and reduced ice accumulation is still actively considered as the most appealing and universal approach to the problem [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Most of the existing studies on anti-ice surfaces are focused on the reduction of ice adhesion strength [1,[5][6][7][8]10,[19][20][21][22][23][24] or delayed ice nucleation/formation [3,9,12,13,23,25,26]. Therefore lately the research in this area has been chiefly focused on the use and development of superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) for preventing ice formation and accumulation [4,[9][10][11][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]…”

“…Most of the existing studies on anti-ice surfaces are focused on the reduction of ice adhesion strength [1,[5][6][7][8]10,[19][20][21][22][23][24] or delayed ice nucleation/formation [3,9,12,13,23,25,26]. Therefore lately the research in this area has been chiefly focused on the use and development of superhydrophobic surfaces (SHSs) for preventing ice formation and accumulation [4,[9][10][11][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][25][26][27][28][29]. Significantly delayed ice formation [3,10,12,13,15,16,23,26] and reduced ice adhesion or accumulation [3,…”

“…At the same time, several recent reports have raised doubts about SHSs as universal and durable anti-ice materials with long-term service and high efficiency under different conditions [1,[13][14][15][16]22,27,[29][30][31].…”