Institute of Solid State Physics

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Development of icephobic coatings based on patterned surfaces
Julia Puntigam
https://tugraz.webex.com/meet/p.hadley
11:15 - 12:15 Wednesday 08 November 2023 

Innovative solutions are needed to produce ice-repellant coatings. The challenge of creating an ice-repellant coating is that it should be repellant to ice/water but also well adherent to the subsrate. One of the most novel approaches regards the development of discontinuities, which can allow to control the ice nucleation.

In particular I will investigate the effect of the dicontinuity in wettability. For this purpose I created patterns of hydrophilic areas and hydrophobic areas. The ice nucleation temperature and probability is studied depending on the size of the patterns.