The problem of surface icing poses a serious threat to people's economy and safety,
especially in the fields of aerospace, wind power generation and circuit transmission. Super …

The negative impacts of cement-based material (CBM) production are way bigger than ever
expected. To illustrate the scale of this phenomenon, all the forests in the world, regardless …

Superwettability is a centuries-old concept that has been rediscovered in past decades,
largely owing to new understanding of the mechanisms of special wetting phenomena in …

Water penetration can cause severe performance deterioration and even failure of concrete
constructions through various degradation mechanisms, such as chemical erosion, dry-wet …

Icephobic coatings for aircraft and other surfaces subjected to ice accretion have generated
great interest in the past two decades, due to the advancement of nanomaterials, coating …

Cold Spray (CS) is a deposition process, part of the thermal spray family. In this method,
powder particles are accelerated at supersonic speed within a nozzle; impacts against a …

Ice formation and accretion on surfaces is a serious economic issue in energy supply and
transportation. Recent strategies for developing icephobic surfaces are intimately associated …

Water droplet impact on surfaces is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and industry, where
the time of contact between droplet and surface influences the transfer of mass, momentum …

The high cost of silane and siloxane based water repellent agents limits their large scale
applications in concrete. In the present work, a low cost waterborne stearic acid emulsion …

Breaking the adhesion between ice-and pavement is crucial for road de-icing. This study
investigates the impact of concrete pavement surface characteristics on ice-pavement …