Holes or Pillars Make Surfaces Slippery (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Holes or Pillars Make Surfaces Slippery

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The photograph shows one of the patterned sub-structures that Zhang and his colleagues used in the design of their anti-icing coating. The substructures helped cause macro-cracking at the interface between ice on the surface and the surface itself, a process the researchers called MACI, for macro-crack initiator.

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NTNU Nanomechanical Lab

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