Loughborough University
Browse

Transparent icephobic coatings using bio-based epoxy resin

Download (862.77 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-08, 11:33 authored by Xinghua Wu, Shunli Zheng, Daniel A. Bellido-Aguilar, Vadim SilberschmidtVadim Silberschmidt, Zhong Chen
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Ice accretion and accumulation pose serious challenges for maintaining the operation and performance of outdoor facilities in cold climate. Epoxy resin, with a wide range of formulation possibilities, is widely used as protective coatings for outdoor facilities. However, bisphenol A (BPA), a key ingredient of conventional epoxy, is known to interfere with human's natural hormones and cause various disorders in the body system. Reduction or complete elimination of the usage of BPA is therefore high in the agenda of the coatings industries. In this study, a transparent, anti-icing, bio-based ep oxy coating was developed for room-temperature processing. As a result of hydrophobic treatment with addition of silanes, the glass-transition temperature and anti-icing performance of bio-based epoxy resin increased significantly. The optimum coating exhibited good water repellency and ice-adhesion strength as low as 50 kPa at − 20°, which was half of the widely accepted threshold value of 100 kPa for icephobic coatings. The icing delay time was much delayed compared with that of an uncoated glass substrate. To further demonstrate the anti-icing performance of the optimized coating, supercooled-water dripping on coated wooden outdoor floors and wooded boards was conducted at − 15 °C, superior anti-icing performance was observed on the coated substrates.

Funding

This research 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).

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Materials and Design

Volume

140

Pages

516 - 523

Citation

WU, X. ...et al., 2018. Transparent icephobic coatings using bio-based epoxy resin. Materials and Design, 140, pp. 516-523.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2018

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Materials and Design and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2017.12.017

ISSN

0264-1275

eISSN

1873-4197

Language

  • en