Enabling Renewable Energy Technologies in Harsh Climates with Ultra‐Efficient Electro‐Thermal Desnowing, Defrosting, and Deicing

A Lipid-Inspired Highly Adhesive Interface for Durable Superhydrophobicity in Wet Environments and Stable Jumping Droplet Condensation

(2022) Jingcheng Ma et al.   ACS Nano

Scalable Corrosion-Resistant Coatings for Thermal Applications

(2021) Siavash Khodakarami et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Fabrication Optimization of Ultra-Scalable Nanostructured Aluminum-Alloy Surfaces

(2021) Longnan Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Superhydrophobic heat exchangers delay frost formation and enhance efficency of electric vehicle heat pumps

(2021) Allison J. Mahvi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Anti-Reflective Coating Materials: A Holistic Review from PV Perspective

(2020) Natarajan Shanmugam et al.   Energies

Recent developments, challenges, and pathways to stable dropwise condensation: A perspective

(2020) Jingcheng Ma et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Atmosphere-Mediated Superhydrophobicity of Rationally Designed Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces

(2019) Xiao Yan et al.   ACS Nano

Photovoltaic electricity generation loss due to snow – A literature review on influence factors, estimation, and mitigation

(2019) Robert E. Pawluk et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Renewables rise above fossil fuels

(2019) Graham Palmer   Nature Energy

Pulse interfacial defrosting

(2019) S. Chavan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Droplet re-icing characteristics on a superhydrophobic surface

(2019) Fuqiang Chu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Fluoropolymer coatings for solar cover glass: Anti-soiling mechanisms in the presence of dew

(2019) Illya Nayshevsky et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Enhanced photovoltaic performance of PEDOT:PSS/Si solar cells using hierarchical light trapping scheme

(2018) Prashant Singh et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

An experimental investigation of snow removal from photovoltaic solar panels by electrical heating

(2018) Ali Rahmatmand et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

When superhydrophobic coatings are icephobic: Role of surface topology

(2018) Xinghua Wu et al.   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY

Southward shift of the global wind energy resource under high carbon dioxide emissions

(2017) Kristopher B. Karnauskas et al.   Nature Geoscience

On the role of solar photovoltaics in global energy transition scenarios

(2017) Christian Breyer et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

The underestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change

(2017) Felix Creutzig et al.   Nature Energy

Visibly Transparent Heaters

(2016) Ritu Gupta et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Combating Frosting with Joule-Heated Liquid-Infused Superhydrophobic Coatings

(2016) Mohamed Elsharkawy et al.   LANGMUIR

Ice protection systems for wind turbines in cold climate: characteristics, comparisons and analysis

(2016) Oloufemi Fakorede et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Design of anti-icing surfaces: smooth, textured or slippery?

(2016) Michael J. Kreder et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Simple Approach to Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Al for Practical Antifrosting Application Based on Enhanced Self-propelled Jumping Droplets

(2015) Aeree Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Self-Propelled Droplet Removal from Hydrophobic Fiber-Based Coalescers

(2015) Kungang Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fossil fuels in a trillion tonne world

(2015) Vivian Scott et al.   Nature Climate Change

Impact of Snow and Ground Interference on Photovoltaic Electric System Performance

(2015) Negin Heidari et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

A highly crystalline single Au wire network as a high temperature transparent heater

(2014) K. D. M. Rao et al.   Nanoscale

Transparent Multi-level Resistive Switching Phenomena Observed in ITO/RGO/ITO Memory Cells by the Sol-Gel Dip-Coating Method

(2014) Hee-Dong Kim et al.   Scientific Reports

Anti-icing surfaces based on enhanced self-propelled jumping of condensed water microdroplets

(2013) Qiaolan Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

(2013) James Hansen et al.   PLoS One

Self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces by self-propelled jumping condensate

(2013) K. M. Wisdom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Measured and modeled photovoltaic system energy losses from snow for Colorado and Wisconsin locations

(2013) Bill Marion et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

The effects of snowfall on solar photovoltaic performance

(2013) Rob W. Andrews et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

A new method to determine the effects of hydrodynamic surface coatings on the snow shedding effectiveness of solar photovoltaic modules

(2013) Rob W. Andrews et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Superhydrophobic surfaces cannot reduce ice adhesion

(2012) Jing Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dual-scale rough multifunctional superhydrophobic ITO coatings prepared by air annealing of sputtered indium–tin alloy thin films

(2012) Nitant Gupta et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Depletion of fossil fuels and anthropogenic climate change—A review

(2012) Mikael Höök et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Nanostructures Increase Water Droplet Adhesion on Hierarchically Rough Superhydrophobic Surfaces

(2012) Hannu Teisala et al.   LANGMUIR

Three-Dimensional Nanobranched Indium–Tin-Oxide Anode for Organic Solar Cells

(2011) Hak Ki Yu et al.   ACS Nano

Anti-reflective coatings: A critical, in-depth review

(2011) Hemant Kumar Raut et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A review of solar photovoltaic technologies

(2011) Bhubaneswari Parida et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Solar photovoltaic electricity: Current status and future prospects

(2011) T.M. Razykov et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Pulse electro-thermal de-icer (PETD)

(2010) Victor F. Petrenko et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Designing Superhydrophobic Porous Nanostructures with Tunable Water Adhesion

(2009) Yuekun Lai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Antireflective coating using aluminum hydroxide formed by hydrothermal treatment of sputtered aluminum films

(2009) Takashi Ishiguro et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Wetting and Roughness

(2008) David Quéré   Annual Review of Materials Research

A review of surface engineering issues critical to wind turbine performance

(2007) N. Dalili et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS