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Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Metal Surfaces for Anti-Icing Applications
Published on: August 15, 2018
Fabrication of Anti-Icing Surfaces by Short α-Helical Peptides
Yifan Zhang1, Kai Liu2, Kaiyong Li3
1Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Changchun 130022, P. R. China.
Abstract:
We designed 12-amino acid peptides as antifreeze protein (AFP) mimetics and tuned the antifreeze activity of the peptides by their structures. Moreover, these short peptides were first immobilized to surfaces as an anti-icing coating. We discovered that the peptides with higher antifreeze activity exhibited better anti-icing performance. It is the first time that short peptides were successfully applied to fabricate anti-icing surfaces, which is certainly advantageous in comparison to the AFP anti-icing coatings previously reported.
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