{"id":90004,"date":"2019-04-26T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-develop-new-class-of-anti-ice-surfaces"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T00:22:21","slug":"researchers-develop-new-class-of-anti-ice-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-develop-new-class-of-anti-ice-surfaces","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop new class of anti-ice surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nClXwd9M4o0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scraping an icy windshield can be a seasonal struggle for those that live in colder climates. But engineers from UBC\u2019s Okanagan campus are aiming to ease that winter frustration with a new surface coating that can shed ice from large areas using little effort.<\/p>\n<p>The new anti-ice coating is a new class of surfaces called low interfacial toughness (LIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> and were developed by UBC Okanagan researchers in a new study published this week in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those experienced in the early morning <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/windshield\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">windshield<\/a> scrape, it should come as no surprise that it normally takes quite a lot of force to remove large areas of ice,\u201d explains Kevin Golovin, assistant professor at the UBCO School of Engineering and study lead author. \u201cThat\u2019s not the case with LIT materials. Imagine simply brushing the ice away or letting it sliding off the windshield from its own weight\u2014that\u2019s how effective LIT materials can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-04-class-anti-ice-surfaces.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scraping an icy windshield can be a seasonal struggle for those that live in colder climates. But engineers from UBC\u2019s Okanagan campus are aiming to ease that winter frustration with a new surface coating that can shed ice from large areas using little effort. The new anti-ice coating is a new class of surfaces called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90004","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}