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    Ice Repellant Coating Developed by University of Michigan Researchers

    Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a unique coating product to counteract the negative effects of ice buildup .

    Ice Repellant Coating Developed by University of Michigan Researchers
    University of Michigan researchers have developed a new spray-on deicing coating.
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    Kerry Pianoforte, Editor04.21.16
    Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a unique coating product to counteract the negative effects of ice buildup on car windshields, airplanes, wind turbines, oil rigs and power lines. Traditionally, removing ice with the current methods available – usually chemical melting agents or labor-intensive scrapers and hammers – is difficult and expensive work.

    That could soon change thanks to a durable, inexpensive ice-repellent coating developed after nearly fours years of work by University of Michigan researchers. Thin, clear and slightly rubbery to the touch, the spray-on formula could make ice slide off equipment, airplanes and car windshields with only the force of gravity or a gentle breeze. This could have major implications in industries like energy, shipping and transportation, where ice is a constant problem in cold climates.

    “There are multiple applications such as coatings for cars (preventing ice build up on windshields, windows and wipers), ships (preventing ice build up on hulls), aircraft (eliminating deicing), power lines, satellite dishes, refrigerators (ice makers), food packaging (frozen food), wind turbines, ice cream makers etc.,” said  Anish Tuteja, U-M Material Science and Engineering Associate Professor.

    The new coating could also lead to big energy savings in freezers, which today rely on complex and energy-hungry defrosting systems to stay frost-free. An ice-repelling coating could do the same job with zero energy consumption, making household and industrial freezers up to 20 percent more efficient. The coating is detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances.

    Made of a blend of common synthetic rubbers, the formula marks a departure from earlier approaches that relied on making surfaces either very water-repellent or very slippery.

    "Researchers had been trying for years to dial down ice adhesion strength with chemistry, making more and more water-repellent surfaces," said Kevin Golovin, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering. "We've discovered a new knob to turn, using physics to change the mechanics of how ice breaks free from a surface."

    Led by Anish Tuteja, associate professor of materials science and engineering, the team initially experimented with water-repelling surfaces as well, but found that they weren't effective at shedding ice. But during their experiments, they noticed something unexpected: rubbery coatings worked best for repelling ice, even when they weren't water-repellent. Eventually, they discovered that the ability to shed water wasn't important at all. The rubbery coatings repelled ice because of a different phenomenon, called "interfacial cavitation."

    Golovin explained that two rigid surfaces—say, ice and your car windshield—can stick tightly together, requiring a great deal of force to break the bond between them. But because of interfacial cavitation, a solid material stuck to a rubbery surface behaves differently. Even a small amount of force can deform the rubbery surface, breaking the solid free.

    "Nobody had explored the idea that rubberiness can reduce ice adhesion," Tuteja said. "Ice is frozen water, so people assumed that ice-repelling surfaces had to also repel water. That was very limiting."

    The new approach makes it possible to dramatically improve durability compared to previous icephobic coatings, which relied on fragile materials that lost their ice-shedding abilities after just a few freeze-thaw cycles. The new coatings stood up to a variety of lab tests including peel tests, salt spray corrosion, high temperatures, mechanical abrasion and hundreds of freeze-thaw cycles.

    The team has also found that by slightly altering the smoothness and rubberiness of the coating, they can fine-tune its degree of ice repellency and durability. Softer surfaces tend to be more ice-repellent but less durable, while the opposite is true for harder coatings. Golovin believes that that flexibility will enable them to create coatings for a huge variety of applications.

    "An airplane coating, for example, would need to be extremely durable, but it could be less ice-repellent because of high winds and vibration that would help push ice off," Golovin said. "A freezer coating, on the other hand, could be less durable, but would need to shed ice with just the force of gravity and slight vibrations. The great thing about our approach is that it's easy to fine-tune it for any given application."

    The team has already designed hundreds of ice-repelling formulas. Some are rough to the touch, some smooth; some shed water while others don't.

    The team has plans to make the product commercially available immediately. “We plan on making a spray for personal / commercial use available within the next 6 months,” Tuteja said. “We are also actively looking for partners to commercialize the technology in different fields of use.”

    "I think the first commercial application will be in linings for commercial frozen food packaging, where sticking is often a problem. We'll probably see that within the next year," Tuteja added. "Using this technology in places like cars and airplanes will be very complex because of the stringent durability and safety requirements, but we're working on it."

    The team received funding and assistance from the U-M MTRAC program, created to support new innovations that demonstrate high commercial potential. MTRAC is funded in partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Entrepreneur and Innovation initiative, which focuses on establishing Michigan as the place to create and grow a business by providing high-tech startup companies with access to a variety of resources.

    “MTRAC was created in the fall of 2012 with support from the Michigan Strategic Fund board / Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The contracts were signed and programs kicked off in 2013,” said  Denise Graves, University Relations Director Entrepreneurship & Innovation Michigan Economic Development Corporation. “The goals of MTRAC are to support translational research into commercial applications by way of strategic milestones and program support and mentoring from industry/venture capital led oversight committees. There are 5 MTRAC programs currently functioning, UM Life Science, UM Advanced Transportation, WSU Bio Medical, MSU Ag Bio and MTU Advanced Materials. Specific outcomes that are measured within MTRAC are startups, licenses to industry, jobs and follow on funding.”

    The MTRAC Transportation program is run jointly by the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship and Office of Technology Transfer. MTRAC Transportation funding focuses on advanced materials, robotics and autonomy, sensors, electric vehicle drivetrain/propulsion, software/controls/data, and advanced manufacturing processes. 

    “We're interested in technologies that solve big problems in the transportation industry,” said Graves. “Current and past projects include: a low-power semiconductor technology, a bamboo-based composite material, a stronger, thinner, battery separator material, bendable concrete rail ties, automated ultrasound inspection system for CFRP airframes, and software solution to run highly highly optimized parallel programs on multicore systems to name a few.”



    The paper is titled "Designing durable icephobic surfaces." In addition to MTRAC, funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation and Nanomanufacturing Program (grant number 1351412).
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