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 …

Ice accumulation poses a series of severe issues in daily life. Inspired by the nature,
superwettability surfaces have attracted great interests from fundamental research to anti …

Superamphiphobic coatings have wide application prospects in various fields, but suffer
from low mechanical robustness. Although some strategies have been reported to solve the …

Superhydrophobic coatings are promising for anti-icing, however, preparation of those with
both excellent passive anti-icing and active deicing functions is very challenging, especially …

Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

The notion of asymmetrical Hydrogen Bond (O: HO) Cooperativity and Polarizability (HBCP)
has enabled exploration of the core physics behind irregularities of water and ice …

Composite insulator is an important component of outdoor insulation systems. It works in
complex environments and faces a series of problems such as surface contamination, loss …

Ice-nucleating organisms play important roles in the environment. With their ability to induce
ice formation at temperatures just below the ice melting point, bacteria such as …

To deal with the hazards of ice accumulation in the industry and daily life, clean and efficient
anti-icing solutions are urgently needed. Solar energy is a powerful and clean energy …

What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of
heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major …