Metasurfaces Leveraging Solar Energy for Icephobicity

ETH researchers discovered an effective way of ice removal and formation mitigation which solely relies on renewable solar energy converted into heat by ultrathin transparent metasurfaces.

The paper, already in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (external pageACS Publicationscall_made), caught the attention of several news agencies around the globe.

Solar-powered nanoscale coating could defrost frozen car windows

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