Thickness Dependence of Ice Removal Stress for a Polydimethylsiloxane Nanocomposite: Sylgard 184

• Published in: Langmuir Vol. 30; no. 43; pp. 12819 - 12826
• Main Authors: Wang, Chenyu, Fuller, Trae, Zhang, Wei, Wynne, Kenneth J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 04.11.2014
• Subjects: adhesion; aircraft; blades; coatings; Gibbs free energy; ice; laboratory experimentation; nanocomposites; polydimethylsiloxane; polymethylmethacrylate; refrigeration; wind turbines; wings

Minimizing adhesion of ice has been the subject of extensive studies because of importance to applications such aircraft wings, spacecraft, and power transmission wires. A growing interest concerns coatings for wind turbine blades and refrigeration. Herein, a new laboratory test was employed to obta...