Cryopreservation technology has developed into a fundamental and important supporting
method for biomedical applications such as cell‐based therapeutics, tissue engineering …

As the most common but indispensable matter to humankind, water usually stays in a
macroscopically electric neutral state. Due to its inherent molecular polarity, however, water …

The ice formation processes on solid surfaces are complex and diverse, which makes it a
daunting challenge to design an icephobic material that is functional under different icing …

Gel materials have drawn great attention recently in the anti-icing research community due
to their remarkable potential for reducing ice adhesion, inhibiting ice nucleation, and …

Diamine-appended Mg2 (dobpdc)(dobpdc4–= 4, 4′-dioxidobiphenyl-3, 3′-dicarboxylate)
metal–organic frameworks are promising candidates for carbon capture that exhibit …

Remarkable progress has been made in surface icephobicity in the recent years. The
mainstream standpoint of the reported antiicing surfaces yet only considers the ice …

As exemplified by the extreme cold weather hitting central China and causing great
economic losses in 2018, as well as the 2021 Texas power crisis involving more than 4.5 …

Plastics redesign for circularity has primarily focused on monomer chemistries enabling
faster deconstruction rates concomitant with high monomer yields. Yet, during …

Despite the remarkable advances in mitigating ice formation and accretion, however, no
engineered anti-icing surfaces today can durably prevent frost formation, droplet freezing …

Icephobic materials can prevent or reduce ice formation, eg by ensuring easy detachment, a
desirable property for those applications where ice accumulation is critical to human safety …