This paper focused on the sessile droplet freezing and ice adhesion on aluminum with different wettability （hydrophilic, com- mon hydrophobic, and superhydrophobic surfaces, coded as HIS, CHS, SHS, respectively） over a surface temperature range of -9℃ to -19℃. It was found that SHS could retard the sessile droplet freezing and lower the ice adhesion probably due to the interfacial air pockets （IAPs） on water/SHS interface. However, as surface temperature decreasing, some IAPs were squeezed out and such freezing retarding and adhesion lowering effect for SHS was reduced greatly. For a surface temperature of-19℃, ice adhesion on SHS was even greater than that on CHS. To discover the reason for the squeezing out of lAPs, forces applied to the suspended water on IAPs were analyzed and it was found that the stability of IAPs was associated with surface mi- cro-structures and surface temperature. These findings might be helpful to designing of SHS with good anti-icing properties.
OU JunFeiSHI QingWenWANG ZhiLeWANG FaJunXUE MingShanLI WenYAN GuiLong
We present a facile one-step method to fabricate superhydrophobic Ag surface by electrodeposition without using any low surface energy reagent. The water contact angle of the prepared surface is 167.1° and the sliding angle is only 0.5° after heat treatment. It is demonstrated by the field emission scanning electron microscopy(FESEM),X-ray diffraction(XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) analyses that the dendrites of rough micro-nanostructure combined with the spontaneously adsorbed hydrocarbon make the surface exhibit superhydrophobicity.However, the superhydrophobic Ag surface becomes superhydrophilic when the surface is irradiated by UV light for several hours. It recovers superhydrophobicity after further heat treatment and can successfully implement the reversible wettability transition between superhydrophobicity and superhydrophilicity for several cycles.
