Prompting Interfacial Elastic Instability for Effective and Durable Icephobic Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Icephobic surfaces offer a passive protection strategy against icing hazards in industrial applications. However, the improvement of surface icephobicity is normally accompanied by a compromise in mechanical properties and restrains the practical application of current icephobic surfaces/materials. Here, a generic strategy for icephobic material design is reported to address this conflict through interfacial elastic instability prompted by the synergistic integration of fibrous construction (FC) frameworks with icephobic polymers. The FC-based material structures could induce periodically localised/amplified stress at the ice/solid interface, leading to interfacial elastic instability and facilitating effective ice detachment. Low ice adhesion strength is achieved, while the tensile streng

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12412557 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature