Energy-effective frost-free coatings based on superhydrophobic aligned nanocones

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8976-8980

  Xu, Qian ^a,b   Li, Juan ^a   Tian, Jian ^a   Zhu, Jie ^a   Gao, Xuefeng ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

antifrosting coatings; condensate jumping; energy effective; nanostructure; superhydrophobic; weak heating

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COBALT; HYDROPHOBICITY;

CONDENSATE JUMPING; ENERGY EFFECTIVE; FLAT SURFACES; HEAT PUMPS; MICRODROPS; NANO-CONES; NANOCONE; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84903524475     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502607e     Document Type: Article

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