Durable Icephobic Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) Using Flame- and Cold-Spraying

Icing and ice accretion cause severe problems in different industrial sectors, e.g., aircrafts, aviation traffic, ships, solar panels, wind turbines. This can lead to enormous economic losses serious safety issues. Surface engineering tackle these by designing surface structures work as icephobic coatings and, this way, act passive anti-icing solutions. In research, slippery liquid-infused porous were fabricated using flame- cold-spraying produce polymer (LDPE PEEK) coatings, impregnated with a silicone lubricant. Microstructural details, properties, wetting behavior, cyclic icing–deicing behavior evaluated via adhesion measurements, which show the potential performance of SLIPS designs. All showed low or medium-low after first icing-deicing cycle best candidate stable even several cycles.