{"id":31848,"date":"2016-11-11T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/magnetic-material-lets-ice-slide-right-off"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:54","slug":"magnetic-material-lets-ice-slide-right-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/magnetic-material-lets-ice-slide-right-off","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic material lets ice slide right off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-material-lets-ice-slide-right-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most people, icy conditions mean a slippery pavement or trying to chip the car out of a freezing glaze, but icing can also bring down aircraft, snap power lines, and cause a surprising amount of structural damage. Now scientists at the University of Houston (UH) have come up with a surprising solution \u2013 and it involves magnets.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with icing is that when droplets of freezing or supercooled water strike a surface, they wet or adhere to it, so more and more droplets can join the party. To de-ice a surface, you need to either melt the ice, break it off, dissolve it, or alter the surface so the ice can\u2019t stick to it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hadi Ghasemi from the UH Department of Mechanical Engineering, \u201cicephobic\u201d surfaces that are non-wetting or liquid infused have shown promise in the past, but suffer from high freezing temperatures, high ice adhesion strength, and high cost.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-material-ice\/46384\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/magnetic-material-ice\/46384\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most people, icy conditions mean a slippery pavement or trying to chip the car out of a freezing glaze, but icing can also bring down aircraft, snap power lines, and cause a surprising amount of structural damage. Now scientists at the University of Houston (UH) have come up with a surprising solution \u2013 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65789,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31848\/revisions\/65789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}