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Metasurfaces Leveraging Solar Energy for Icephobicity

Efstratios Mitridis, Thomas M. Schutzius, Alba Sicher, Claudio U. Hail, Hadi Eghlidi and Dimos Poulikakos. ACS Nano, Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02719

by Jovo Vidic

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ETH researchers discovered an effective way of ice removal and formation mitigation which solely relies on renewable solar energy converted into heat by ultrathin transparent metasurfaces.

Enlarged view: icephobicity

The paper, already in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (external page ACS Publications), caught the attention of several news agencies around the globe.

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