biostudies-literatureYang DEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council11314-11323https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9494940biostudies-literatureUnknown38(37)Ice accretion on economically valuable and strategically important surfaces poses significant challenges. Current anti-/de-icing techniques often have critical issues regarding their efficiency, convenience, long-term stability, or sustainability. As an emerging ice mitigation strategy, the thin-film surface acoustic wave (SAW) has great potentials due to its high energy efficiency and effective integration on structural surfaces. However, anti-/de-icing processes activated by SAWs involve complex interfacial evolution and phase changes, and it is crucial to understand the nature of dynamic solid-liquid-vapor phase changes and ice nucleation, growth, and melting events under SAW agitation. In this study, we systematically investigated the accretion and removal of porous rime ice from strucLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloidsDynamic Mitigation Mechanisms of Rime Icing with Propagating Surface Acoustic Waves.PMC9494940EP/P018998/1EP/N032861/1EP/S036180/1Luo JMcHale GMartin JTao RFu YTorun HYang DHaworth LHou XAgrawal PfalseDynamic Mitigation Mechanisms of Rime Icing with Propagating Surface Acoustic Waves.Ice accretion on economically valuable and strategically important surfaces poses significant challenges. Current anti-/de-icing techniques often have critical issues regarding their efficiency, convenience, long-term stability, or sustainability. As an emerging ice mitigation strategy, the thin-film surface acoustic wave (SAW) has great potentials due to its high energy efficiency and effective integration on structural surfaces. However, anti-/de-icing processes activated by SAWs involve complex interfacial evolution and phase changes, and it is crucial to understand the nature of dynamic solid-liquid-vapor phase changes and ice nucleation, growth, and melting events under SAW agitation. In this study, we systematically investigated the accretion and removal of porous rime ice from struc2022-01-01T00:00:00Z2022 Sep2025-04-25T19:14:06.733Z2025-04-06T07:51:33.564ZS-EPMC94949403607060510.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01509