. . . OR ICE NO MORE

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are taking a different approach to aircraft icing, developing a macroscopic film that discourages ice adhesion to wing surfaces. The new class of miniature polymers self-assemble into mushroom-shaped nanostructures that in turn organize...

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