Water droplet behavior on superhydrophobic SiO2 nanocomposite films during icing/deicing cycles

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].…”

“…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].…”

A study on the fabrication of superhydrophobic iron surfaces by chemical etching and galvanic replacement methods and their anti-icing properties

“…A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 4 superhydrophobic surface showed poor mechanical durability during icing/deicing cycles [33][34]. Kulinich et al [35][36] found that the ice-repellent properties of superhydrophobic materials deteriorated during icing/deicing cycles due to the gradual damage of the surface asperities, and water was condensed more easily between the surface asperities in a humid atmosphere, leading to high ice adhesion strength.…”

On Modulating Interfacial Structure towards Improved Anti-Icing Performance

“…At the same time, the energy and time consumption and the need for periodic treatment make active solutions non-ideal and a "passive approach" through coatings or surface engineering that avoid conventional heating and salting are desired [103,104]. Increasing interest in superhydrophobic [19,21,28,31,34,39,42,43,47,48,53,56,63,65,66,75,[79][80][81][82]84,85,[88][89][90][91][92][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118], biomimetic [26,37,62,108,117,[119][1...…”