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University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

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For the first time, two distinct spatial modes of ice bridges are discovered and experimentally verified: suspended bridges on superhydrophobic surfaces and substrate-attached bridges on hydrophilic surfaces, overturning the long-standing assumption that ice bridges always grow along the substrate.

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The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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