Room Temperature Characteristics of Polymer-Based Low Ice Adhesion Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Ice adhesion is mainly dictated by surface properties, and water wettability is frequently correlated with ice adhesion strength. However, these established correlations are limited to high ice adhesion and become invalid when the ice adhesion strength is low. Here we carried out an experimental study to explore the relationships between low ice adhesion strength and room temperature surface properties. A variety of room temperature properties of 22 polymer-based hydrophilic and hydrophobic samples consisting of both low and high ice adhesion surfaces were analysed. The properties investigated include water adhesion force, water wettability, roughness, elastic modulus and hardness. Our results show that low ice adhesion strength does not correlate well with water contact angle and its vari

SUBMITTER: He Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5294566 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature