Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7835398 | Applied Surface Science | 2018 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
We report a fabrication method to obtain a low-ice-adhesion aluminum surface by surface texturing using solution etching and subsequent thin-film coating. Specifically, the textured surface has microstructures of a low aspect ratio, that is, with a much smaller height than width. Such microstructures can effectively reduce ice-adhesion strengths by sliding the ice during detachment. Because our method is based on solution etching, it can be applied to curved surfaces with complex shapes for uniformly constructing the morphology of a low-ice-adhesion aluminum surface. Finally, the low-ice-adhesion aluminum surface reduces the ice-adhesion strengths by up to 95%.
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Authors
Jaehyeon Jeon, Hanmin Jang, Jinho Chang, Kwan-Soo Lee, Dong Rip Kim,