Control of Ice Propagation by Using Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coatings

Jin, Yuankai; He, Zhiyuan; Guo, Qian; Wang, Jianjun

doi:10.1002/anie.201705190

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“…Ice propagation is another factor causing ice deposition on the solid surface. [43] They studied the ice propagation behavior on polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) surfaces (Figure 4e). The ice propagation is strongly dependent on the amount of water in the outermost layer of PEMs.…”

Section: Ice Growth Patterns On Solid Surfacementioning

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Designing Anti‐Icing Surfaces by Controlling Ice Formation

Zhou

Sun

Liu

2021

Adv Materials Inter

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or could exhibit easy de-icing process is an extremely meaningful issue to be considered. [1d,4] Though various anti-icing and de-icing strategies have been widely developed, the conventional positive de-icing methods are usually inefficient, high waste and cost, or environmentally unfriendly. [5] To fundamentally and effectively address the problem of superficial icing, understanding and controlling the icing process on the surfaces will facilitate the design of anti-icing surfaces. [1c,d,4,6] Ice forms on solid surfaces mainly through four routes: freezing of supercooled sessile droplets, [7] freezing of impacting supercooled water droplets, [8] frosting, [9] and ice deposition (Scheme 1). [10] In winter, when the supercooled drops impact on a surface, freezing happens in short time as the surface temperature is subzero. The freezing of supercooled water or vapor on solid surfaces usually experiences steps of reversible formation of ice nuclei, [4a,11] irreversible growth of ice crystal, [12] and ice recrystallization. [13] Besides freezing from water or vapor, ice sometimes deposits directly on the solid surface by snowfall.Efforts have been made to understand the mechanism of ice formation, and various anti-icing and de-icing strategies have been developed with respect to the different routes of ice formation (Scheme 1). For sessile droplet freezing, surfaces with specific charges, [7c,14] ions, [15] or wetting properties, [7b,16] etc., have been applied to inhibit or delay ice nucleation. The freezing of impacting droplet can be solved by employing liquid-repellent surface to inhibit droplet attachment and reducing contact time before bouncing. [17] Frost formation process occurs when water condensation or water vapor desublimation happens on the surface. It can be, respectively, hindered by the timely removal of the condensate droplets due to their high mobility on superhydrophobic surfaces or local icing by spatially controlling the nucleation and the growth modes of ice crystals on surfaces. [9b,12c,18] If ice is inevitably deposited on the surface, the introduction of a aqueous or organic lubricant layer on the surface can effectively reduce its adhesion. [4b,19] In this review, we briefly summarize the current progress of studies on the regulation of the heterogenous ice nucleation and growth, respectively. Then we correspondingly summarize the anti-icing strategies with respect to the different routes of ice formation. Finally, we discuss the remaining gaps in the field of anti-icing and outlooks for development.Understanding the formation of ice from supercooled water on a surface is a matter of fundamental importance and general use. Kinetics of ice nucleation and ice growth on solid surfaces are actively studied, based on which effective anti-icing surfaces are designed. This review introduces one major breakthrough of experimental estimation of the critical ice nucleus size in heterogenous ice nucleation (HIN). Besides that, targeted anti-icing strategies are summarized according to th...

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Section: Ice Growth Patterns On Solid Surfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Anti‐Icing Surfaces by Controlling Ice Formation

Zhou

Sun

Liu

2021

Adv Materials Inter

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“…Ice formation on surfaces is initiated with HIN and is then followed by ice propagation, which was investigated through layer‐by‐layer (LBL) depositing of a polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) on the surface . It was found that the ice‐propagation rate is governed by the amount of water in the outermost layer . Controlling the ice propagation could be another possible pathway to achieving anti‐icing .…”

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“…[30] It wasf ound that the ice-propagation rate is governed by the amount of water in the outermost layer. [30] Controlling the ice propagation could be another possible pathway to achieving anti-icing. [31] In addition to delaying ice nucleation and retarding ice propagation throughl owering the HIN temperature and decreasing the ice-propagation rate, the observation of the formation of ice and organic crystals in pockets on naturally cleaved Muscovite mica, which acted like ice-nucleation active sites, was reported by Christenson et al [25d] Ac onfined phase forms along the apex of the wedge; subsequentg rowth out of the pockets generates twin bulk crystalsa si llustrated in Figure 4b, [25d] whichw as also observed by using opticalm icroscopy ( Figure 4c).…”

Section: Controlling Ice Formationmentioning

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Interfacial Materials for Anti‐Icing: Beyond Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Jin

Liu

et al. 2018

Chemistry An Asian Journal

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The design and fabrication of interfacial materials for anti-icing is of great importance, since undesired ice accumulation leads to serious economic, energy, and safety issues. Substantial progress on interfacial materials for the passive removal of ice has been achieved in the past three years. The present focus review critically summarizes and analyzes recent breakthroughs in interfacial materials for anti-icing. In particular, we focus on the effect of surface textures on the timely removal of water droplets, the microscopic mechanism of ice formation, and the effect of an interfacial layer's properties on easy shedding of formed ice with a view towards designing high-performance and durable interfacial materials for anti-icing beyond superhydrophobic materials.

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“…We have demonstrated earlier that ECIN nano‐thin films can be fabricated on a surface through electrostatic interactions using nonfood grade synthetic oppositely charged cationic poly (diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDDA) and anionic poly(styrenesulfonate) (PSS; Gezgin, Lee, & Huang, 2013). A similar work on ice propagation had been conducted using the layer by layer (LbL) deposition of polyelectrolyte pairs PSS/poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and PSS/PDDA without using ECINs, where authors concluded that ice propagation can be tuned by modifying the outermost polymer layer (Jin, He, Guo, & Wang, 2017), which in fact was performed in our above cited work by adding a single layer of ECINs on the PSS/PDDA multilayers. We have also demonstrated the potential to fabricate the same using food grade charged biopolymers such as chitosan, carrageenan, and pectin (Gezgin, Lee, & Huang, 2017).…”

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AFM imaging of extracellular ice nucleators

Gezgin

Lee

2020

Journal of Food Science

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Ice nucleators are substances that can initiate nucleation of pure water at and above −10°C. Some plant pathogens possess a gene which encodes for a protein that acts as an ice nucleator, activity of which is enhanced when it is combined with the sugar and lipid components from the cell membrane. This matter retains its ice nucleation activity even after it is detached from the cell wall, and is termed extracellular ice nucleator (ECIN). In this paper, surface morphology of ECINs was investigated using atomic force microscopy (AFM) in tapping mode. ECINs were immobilized onto polyelectrolyte multilayers using the layer by layer deposition method. Effect of layer build-up, method of ECIN production, and polyelectrolytes used for multilayer fabrication were investigated. Globular and rod-like structures were observed on the AFM images of the nano-thin ECIN layers. Activity of ECINs, tested in food solutions in earlier studies, was retained when applied as a nano-thin layer onto a silicon wafer surface. Protein aggregate sizes decreased when higher centrifugation speeds were applied, and ice nucleation activity also decreased. Nucleation occurred faster and at higher temperatures when substrates were immersed in solutions of higher ECIN concentration, whereas number of bilayers formed did not have a significant effect. Higher concentration ECIN dipping solutions also led to the formation of thicker and denser ECIN layers as observed via AFM imaging.

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Control of Ice Propagation by Using Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coatings

Cited by 47 publications

References 32 publications

Designing Anti‐Icing Surfaces by Controlling Ice Formation

Designing Anti‐Icing Surfaces by Controlling Ice Formation

Interfacial Materials for Anti‐Icing: Beyond Superhydrophobic Surfaces

AFM imaging of extracellular ice nucleators

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