title: Anti-ice coating inspired by ice skating.
abstract: Accumulation of ice to surfaces brings dangerous and costly problems to our daily life. In this paper, an anti-ice coating inspired by ice skating is reported. Hyaluronic acid is used in the anti-ice coating to form aqueous lubricating layer benefitting from its high water absorbing property. Dopamine, the main component of the mussel adhesive protein, is introduced to anchor the hyaluronic acid to the solid surfaces to render the coating applicable to all types of solid surfaces. At the same time it serves as the crosslinking agent for hyaluronic acid, thus the thickness of the water collecting film could be easily varied. Ice adhesion strength on surfaces coated with such kind of coating could be more than one order of magnitude lower than that of uncoated ones. The results indicate that this anti-ice coating with the aqueous lubricating layer has great potential for fighting against icing problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, PR China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhiqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Qinrui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Jianyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: anti-ice coating; aqueous lubricating layer; dopamine; hyaluronic acid; ice adhesion