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Filomena Piscitelli and Annalisa Volpe
Corrosion is a persistent challenge in the aviation industry, affecting the safety, performance, and maintenance costs of aircraft. While composite materials have gained widespread use due to their lightweight properties and corrosion resistance, certain...
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Maria Cannio, Dino Norberto Boccaccini, Stefano Caporali and Rosa Taurino
Superhydrophobic materials, known for their exceptional water-repellent properties, have found widespread applications in diverse fields such as self-cleaning surfaces, anti-icing coatings, and water-resistant textiles. In recent years, researchers have ...
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Oleksiy Myronyuk, Denys Baklan, Aleksej M. Rodin, Egidijus Vanagas and Zuo Yong
The eligibility of applying the Owens?Wendt approach to determining the free surface energy of liquid-repellent aluminum surfaces, with micro- and nanotextures formed by a femtosecond laser, was considered. This approach has been shown to be applicable u...
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Wensheng Zhong, Shilin Hu, Manyuan Wu, Bichen Xiong, Qiaowen Liu, Qingqing Jia, Yaming Liu and Hongwei Liao
Superhydrophobic surfaces have received increasing attention due to their excellent water repellency, but the fragile stability of superhydrophobic coatings has been a huge hindrance to their applications. In this work, we constructed a layer of mullite ...
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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Hussein Ali Hussein, Sabah Ibrahim Wais and Khedir R. Khedir
In this study, superhydrophobic surfaces were developed by using a simple and environmentally friendly technique. The nano-network of candle soot (CS) as the byproduct of incomplete combustion of paraffin candle was directly coated onto both smooth and m...
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Kranthi Kumar Maniam and Shiladitya Paul
Electrodeposited zinc and zinc-alloy coatings have been extensively used in a wide variety of applications such as transport, automotive, marine, and aerospace owing to their good corrosion resistance and the potential to be economically competitive. As ...
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Eric Villeneuve, Caroline Blackburn and Christophe Volat
In order to study ice protection systems for rotating blades, a new experimental setup has been developed at the Anti-Icing Materials International Laboratory (AMIL). This system consists of two small-scale rotating blades in a refrigerated icing wind tu...
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Michele Ferrari, Paolo Piccardo, Justine Vernet and Francesca Cirisano
One of the most important factors determining a significant reduction in optical devices? efficiency is the accumulation of soiling substances such as dust, which, especially in solar power plants, implies higher costs and materials ageing. The use of su...
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