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Mechanically robust transparent anti-icing coatings: Roles of dispersion status of Titanate nanotubes
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posted on 2018-11-19, 10:09 authored by Xinghua Wu, Yuxin Tang, Vadim SilberschmidtVadim Silberschmidt, Peter Wilson, Zhong Chen© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Ice accretion on automobiles, aerospace components, precision instruments, and photovoltaic devices detrimentally affect their performance and increase the maintenance cost. Despite significant efforts devoted to the investigation of anti-icing coatings in the past decades, mechanically robust and transparent anti-icing coatings are rarely reported. In this study, titanate nanotubes are used as filler to prepare mechanically robust anti-icing coatings with a sol-gel method. Specially, the effect of dispersion status of nanotubes on the transmittance, surface roughness, and water repellency is investigated. The optimized smooth, transparent coating exhibits higher water repellency and better anti-icing performance in terms of ice-adhesion strength, icing delay time, and ice-nucleation temperature than the rough one. Much higher hardness and scratch resistance than that of commercially available icephobic or anti-icing coatings is obtained on the smooth, transparent sample; the coating also presents good adhesion to the substrate.
Funding
This work was supported by Nanyang Technological University in form of a research scholarship, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore (SERC 1528000048).
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- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Advanced Materials InterfacesCitation
WU. X. ... et al., 2018. Mechanically robust transparent anti-icing coatings: Roles of dispersion status of Titanate nanotubes. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(18): 1800773.Publisher
© WileyVersion
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2018-06-29Publication date
2018-07-30Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: WU. X. ... et al., 2018. Mechanically robust transparent anti-icing coatings: Roles of dispersion status of Titanate nanotubes. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(18): 1800773, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201800773. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.eISSN
2196-7350Publisher version
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- en