video: This video shows water that has been frozen on one of our icephobic coatings. When tilted, the weight of the ice alone is enough to detach the ice, and it easily slides off. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 11, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Golovin at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and colleagues was titled, "Designing durable icephobic surfaces." view more
Credit: Kevin Golovin