Activating the microscale edge effect in a hierarchical surface for frosting suppression and defrosting promotion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Xuemei ^a   Ma, Ruiyuan ^b   Zhou, Hongbo ^b   Zhou, Xiaofeng ^c   Che, Lufeng ^c   Yao, Shuhuai ^b   Wang, Zuankai ^a,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Shenzhen Research Institute of City University of Hong Kong ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; FRICTION; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ARTICLE;

FRICTION; ICE; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER;

EID: 84883411020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02515     Document Type: Article

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