G132 Development of thin film made from silane-coupler for controlling ice adhesion force : Investigation on influence of test plates' materials on formation characteristics of thin film

Abstract

Ice adhesion to a cooling solid surface often causes a major accident, while, recently, stronger adhesion force of ice is positively used to fix a workpiece. Therefore, it is necessary to control an ice adhesion force to the cooling solid surface. One of the authors clarified that a thin film made from a silane-coupler coated on the solid surface was effective to control the ice adhesion force. In this paper, for two kinds of silane-couplers, influence of test plates' materials on characteristics of film formation such as a thin film thickness was investigated, varying immersion times of the test plate to the water and silane-couple solution, after which ice adhesion forces are measured.