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Icing is a natural phenomenon that impacts various aspects of daily life and safety, including aeronautics, ground transportation, critical operations, power systems (like power lines, wind turbines, and solar panels), communication systems, and infrastructures. In particular, activities at high latitudes or altitudes require energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable ice protection solutions.
This book consolidates information on modeling, coating, material preparation, characterization, fabrication, and applications of anti-icing surfaces. It provides a comprehensive understanding of icephobic coating strategies and their industrial applications. Divided into two parts, it covers the theory and physics of icing and presents scientific advances from the SURFICE project, including industry case studies. It's a valuable resource for scientists and engineers interested in surface science and thermodynamics related to icing phenomena.
Key features:
- Brings together the state-of-the-art physics of icing and anti-icing/icephobic materials with cutting-edge advances in ice-related coating technologies
- Integrates information about the modelling, coating and material preparation, characterization and applications of anti-icing surfaces
- Covers the fundamentals of anti-icing coating strategies based on icephobicity and the possible implementation into industrial systems
- Presents both fundamental and applied research, including case-studies from industry in fields including aeronautics, energy systems and sensor technologies
- Based on the outcomes of the EU SURFICE project (www.surfice-itn.eu)
All the book authors and contributors acknowledge funding through SURFICE (smart surface design for efficient ice protection and control) (www.surfice-itn.eu), a European Training Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956703.
- The physics of icing
- Strategies for icephobicity and the role of surface chemistry
- Conceptual framework for ice adhesion investigation on surfaces
- Ice adhesion dynamics in the tensile mode
- Fracture mechanisms in electromechanical resonant de-icing systems
- The promise of reticular materials: scalable icephobicity and beyond
- Rigid and soft materials for icephobicity: the role of surface and mechanical properties
- The use of thermally activatable adhesion promoters for permanent and durable immobilization of non-reactive polymetric coatings
- Icephobic gradient polymer coatings deposited via iCVD
- Unveiling durability of icephobic coatings by standardized environmental tests for industrial applications