No-Stick Coating Could Help Prevent In-Flight Icing | Autopia | Wired.com: "A team of Japanese researchers are hoping to use a version of everybody’s favorite non-stick material to help the aviation industry avoid the deadly problem of in-flight icing. The goal of the research is to create a substance that can be applied to an airplane’s paint to repel the super-cooled water that leads to the issue.
Hirotaka Sakaue of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says the goal is to reduce the energy a drop of water needs to detach from a surface.
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