Elevating thermal-deicing efficiency via regulating interfacial-ice induced by microstructure under flow condition
Jiawei Jiang, Yizhou Shen, Yangjiangshan Xu, Zhen Wang, Senyun Liu, Lingfeng Zhao, Ying Pan, Jie Tao, Zhong Chen · 2026
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Jiang and colleagues improve, in 2026, thermal de-icing by engineering the type of ice that forms against a surface under airflow. Ice on aircraft wings costs lift and safety, and electric heating is the incumbent fix. Wisdom held that flow conditions alone dictate ice type, but their non-wetting microstructured surfaces grow a porous rime layer under flow, changing how the ice lets go when heated.
The microstructures fragment pre-frozen droplets with help from the airflow, shrinking the ice crystals. Smaller crystals block heat pathways differently, thickening the rime layer, which melts free as direct solid-ice contact rather than through an energy-wasting water film. The effect cut thermal de-icing energy consumption by roughly 56 percent without extra energy input in their experiments. Earlier work shows porous rime alone can trim melting time by 27.2 percent, context the authors build into a surface-design strategy.
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| CREATOR | Jiawei Jiang, Yizhou Shen, Yangjiangshan Xu, Zhen Wang, Senyun Liu, Lingfeng Zhao, Ying Pan, Jie Tao, Zhong Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |