Wanghuai Xu

Dec 5, 2024 | nature.com | Wei Zhang |Yuankai Jin |Chenyang Wu |Wanghuai Xu |Haimin Yao

AbstractPreventing water droplet accretion on surfaces is fundamentally interesting and practically important. Water droplets at room temperature can spontaneously detach from surfaces through texture design or coalescence-induced surface-to-kinetic energy transformation. However, under freezing conditions, these strategies become ineffective owing to the stronger droplet–surface interaction and the lack of an energy transformation pathway.