Plasmon-mediated photothermal and superhydrophobic TiN-PTFE film for anti-icing/deicing applications

Ma, Li; Wang, Jinke; Zhao, Fengtong; Wu, Dequan; Huang, Yao; Zhang, Dawei; Zhang, Zhengjun; Fu, Wangyang; Li, Yong; Yang, Fan

doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2019.107696

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“…by utilizing ample environmental light and environmental friendliness without harmful chemicals (19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Recently, it has been shown that plasmonic (21,24,25), magnetic particles (20,26), and carbon nanomaterials (26,27) can be utilized in photothermal surfaces to generate heat from photo/solar energy and melt accumulated ice. However, there are limitations and remaining challenges.…”

Section: Significancementioning

confidence: 99%

Superhydrophobic photothermal icephobic surfaces based on candle soot

Alsaid

et al. 2020

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Ice accumulation causes various problems in our daily life for human society. The daunting challenges in ice prevention and removal call for novel efficient antiicing strategies. Recently, photothermal materials have gained attention for creating icephobic surfaces owing to their merits of energy conservation and environmental friendliness. However, it is always challenging to get an ideal photothermal material which is cheap, easily fabricating, and highly photothermally efficient. Here, we demonstrate a low-cost, high-efficiency superhydrophobic photothermal surface, uniquely based on inexpensive commonly seen candle soot. It consists of three components: candle soot, silica shell, and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) brushes. The candle soot provides hierarchical nano/microstructures and photothermal ability, the silica shell strengthens the hierarchical candle soot, and the grafted low-surface-energy PDMS brushes endow the surface with superhydrophobicity. Upon illumination under 1 sun, the surface temperature can increase by 53 °C, so that no ice can form at an environmental temperature as low as −50 °C and it can also rapidly melt the accumulated frost and ice in 300 s. The superhydrophobicity enables the melted water to slide away immediately, leaving a clean and dry surface. The surface can also self-clean, which further enhances its effectiveness by removing dust and other contaminants which absorb and scatter sunlight. In addition, after oxygen plasma treatment, the surface can restore superhydrophobicity with sunlight illumination. The presented icephobic surface shows great potential and broad impacts owing to its inexpensive component materials, simplicity, ecofriendliness, and high energy efficiency.

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Section: Significancementioning

confidence: 99%

Superhydrophobic photothermal icephobic surfaces based on candle soot

Alsaid

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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177

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“…Therefore, it is much more desirable to design passive anti-icing surfaces via lowering freezing temperature or reducing ice adhesion, with the benefit of reducing energy consumption [8]. Recently, several strategies have been proposed to depress the freezing temperature, such as ion-infused surfaces [14,15], charged surfaces [16], photothermal surfaces [17], etc. Meanwhile, Wang and co-workers found that water molecules can interact tightly with hydrophilic polymers, making the water in the hydrogel coating remain liquid in subzero environments, a quality which can be utilized to reduce the ice adhesion.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydrogels as Durable Anti-Icing Coatings Inhibit and Delay Ice Nucleation

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The accumulation of ice on surfaces brings dangerous and costly problems to our daily life. Thus, it would be desirable to design anti-icing coatings for various surfaces. We report a durable anti-icing coating based on mussel-inspired chemistry, which is enabled via fabricating a liquid water layer, achieved by modifying solid substrates with the highly water absorbing property of sodium alginate. Dopamine, the main component of the mussel adhesive protein, is introduced to anchor the sodium alginate in order to render the coating applicable to all types of solid surfaces. Simultaneously, it serves as the cross-linking agent for sodium alginate; thus, the cross-linking degree of the coatings could be easily varied. The non-freezable and freezable water in the coatings with different cross-link degrees all remain liquid-like at subzero conditions and synergistically fulfill the aim of decreasing the temperature of ice nucleation. These anti-icing coatings display excellent stability even under harsh conditions. Furthermore, these coatings can be applied to almost all types of solid surfaces and have great promise in practical applications.

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“…The photothermal trap surfaces that used solar irradiation energy for ice melting were outstanding candidates and have raised great interests. [ 38 , 132 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 188 , 189 ] Despite the complex design, these surfaces are efficient in ice melting. For instance, superhydrophobic icephobic surfaces with photothermal effects by using cheap candle soot was newly fabricated.…”

Section: Dynamic Icementioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Anti‐Icing Surfaces (DAIS)

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Remarkable progress has been made in surface icephobicity in the recent years. The mainstream standpoint of the reported antiicing surfaces yet only considers the ice-substrate interface and its adjacent regions being of static nature. In reality, the local structures and the overall properties of ice-substrate interfaces evolve with time, temperature and various external stimuli. Understanding the dynamic properties of the icing interface is crucial for shedding new light on the design of new anti-icing surfaces to meet challenges of harsh conditions including extremely low temperature and/or long working time. This article surveys the state-of-the-art anti-icing surfaces and dissects their dynamic changes of the chemical/physical states at icing interface. According to the focused critical ice-substrate contacting locations, namely the most important ice-substrate interface and the adjacent regions in the substrate and in the ice, the available anti-icing surfaces are for the first time re-assessed by taking the dynamic evolution into account. Subsequently, the recent works in the preparation of dynamic anti-icing surfaces (DAIS) that consider time-evolving properties, with their potentials in practical applications, and the challenges confronted are summarized and discussed, aiming for providing a thorough review of the promising concept of DAIS for guiding the future icephobic materials designs.

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Plasmon-mediated photothermal and superhydrophobic TiN-PTFE film for anti-icing/deicing applications

Cited by 125 publications

References 48 publications

Superhydrophobic photothermal icephobic surfaces based on candle soot

Superhydrophobic photothermal icephobic surfaces based on candle soot

Hydrogels as Durable Anti-Icing Coatings Inhibit and Delay Ice Nucleation

Dynamic Anti‐Icing Surfaces (DAIS)

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